everything; though his nearness is not like the nearness of bodies, as neither is his essence like the essence of bodies.  Neither doth he exist in anything, neither doth anything exist in him; but he is too high to be contained in any place, and too holy to be determined by time; for he was before time and place were created, and is now after the same manner as he always was.  He is also distinct from the creatures by his attributes, neither is there anything besides himself in his essence, nor is his essence in any other besides him.  He is too holy to be subject to change, or any local motion; neither do any accidents dwell in him nor any contingencies befall him, but he abides through all generations with his glorious attributes, free from all danger of dissolution.  As to the attribute of perfection, he wants no addition of his perfection.  As to being, he is known to exist by the apprehension of the understanding; and he is seen as he is by an ocular intuition, which will be vouchsafed out of his mercy and grace to the holy in the eternal mansion, completing their joy by the vision of his glorious presence.

“His Power.] He, praised be his name, is living, powerful, mighty, omnipotent, not liable to any defect or impotence, neither slumbering nor sleeping, nor being obnoxious to decay or death.  To him belong the kingdom, and the power, and the might.  His is the dominion, and the excellency, and the creation, and the command thereof.  The heavens are folded up in his right hand, and all creatures are crouched within his grasp.  His excellency consists in his creating and producing, and his unity in communicating existence and a beginning of being.  He created men and their works, and measured out their maintenance and their determined times.  Nothing that is possible can escape his grasp, nor can the vicissitudes of things elude his power.  The effects of his might are innumerable, and the objects of his knowledge infinite.

“His Knowledge.] He, praised be his name, knows all things that can be understood, and comprehends whatsoever comes to pass, from the extremities of the earth to the highest heavens, even the weight of a pismire could not escape him either in earth or heaven; but he would perceive the creeping of the black pismire in the dark night upon the hard stone, and discern the motion of an atom in the open air.  He knows what is secret and conceals it, and views the conceptions of the minds, and the motions of the thoughts, and the inmost recesses of secrets, by a knowledge ancient and eternal, that never ceased to be his attribute from eternal eternity, and not by any new knowledge, superadded to his essence, either inhering or adventitious.