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of GOD.
1. That God is the only God, and that there is none other beside him: That he hath no like, nor equal, nor Son, nor Com∣panion, nor Colleague. Whose Original is without beginning, and Eternity without end. Whose Attributes are incomprehen∣sible, and whose Power exceeds all expres∣sion. Whose Essence no thought can com∣prehend; though men given deeply to meditate use to express it by Signs and Ex∣amples. No Man can know more of God than he hath pleased to reveal of himself. His Throne is equal to Heaven and Earth, and no inconvenience doth accrew unto him from his conservation of them both. God is the Excellent, Great, Wise, Knowing, Mo∣derator, Powerful, Sagacious, Nimble, Great, who sits upon his Throne honour'd with his Being, who pierceth into all places with his knowledge: who created Man, and knows whatsoever his Soul inspir'd into him: not a leaf doth fall without his privity, neither doth a grave lye hid in darkness, whether green or drie, which is not to be found in the Books. [By which the Arabians under∣stand Predestination.] The same God hath ex∣cellent Names (of which no fewer than 99 are reckoned up by the Arabians) and ex∣cellent