sented as a spiritual Being, without form, invisible, whom no man hath seen or can see ; dwelHng in the light which no man can approach unto, and full of glory ; as not only the creator, and pre- server, but as the governor of all things ; as eveiy wiiere present, and everywhere imparting life, and securing order ; present in every blade of grass, yet guiding Arcturus in his course, marshalling the stars as a host, calling them by their names ; present also in every human soul, giving it understanding, endowing it with gifts, work- ing in it both to will and to do. The human heart is in his hands ; and He turneth it even as the rivers of water are turned. Where- ever, throughout the universe, there is evidence of mind in mate- rial causes, there, according to the Scriptures, is God, controlling and guiding those causes to the accomplishment of his wise designs. He is in all, and over all things ; yet essentially different from all, being over all, independent, and infinitely exalted. This immen- sity and omnipresence of God, therefore, is the ubiquity of the divine essence, and consequently of the divine power, wisdom, and goodness. As the birds in the air and the fish in the sea, so also are we always surrounded and sustained by God. It is thus that He is infinite in his being, without absorbing all created beings into his own essence, but sustaining all in their individual subsist- ence, and in the exercise of their own powers.
§ 6. Eternity.
A. Scriptural Doctrine. The infinitude of God relatively to space, is his immensity or omnipresence ; relatively to duration, it is his eternity. As He is free from all the limitations of space, so He is exalted above all the limitations of time. As He is not more in one place than in an- other, but is everywhere equally present, so He does not exist dur- ing one period of duration more than another. With Him there is no distinction between the present, past, and future ; but all things are equally and always present to Him. With Him dura- tion is an eternal now. This is the popular and the Scriptural, view of God's eternity. "Before the mountains were Irought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God." (Ps. xc. 2.) " Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth : and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure : yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed : but thou art the