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CHAP. V. The Suns Omnipresence a shadow of Christ.
NExt to Christ his Omniscience, consider his Omnipresence, the ground and cause of that Omniscience. In both which respects God may be said to have set his Tabernacle in the Sun, which shadowes out both: Christs Humanity also is called the Tent or Taber∣nacle of the Divinity. The Sun locally in Heaven, is virtually in earth, his light, heat, influence, every where overspreading the face of the Sea and Land, penetrating the depths of both, to the bottom of the sea, and to those subterraneous minerals in the bo∣som and secret chambers of the earth. Christ when ascending heaven, left his promise, as Elijah his mantle, with his Disciples, Lo, I am with you alway to the end of the world. And where ever two or three are gathered to∣gether in my name, I am in the midst of them.
This may be a sensible Rebuke to the blind Atheists; who are not to be dealt with by Scripture or reason; who having pu•• out both their own eyes of reason and con∣science, would pull out Gods also of Om∣niscience and Omnipresence: and having shut out the sense of a Deity out of their own thoughts, would dispute the Essence