A reall infinite matter, distinct

And yet proceeding from the Deitie

Although with different form as then untinct

Has ever been from all Eternitie.

Now what delay can we suppose to be,

Since matter alway was at hand prepar’d

Before the filling of the boundlesse skie

With framed Worlds; for nought at all debar’d,

Nor was His strength ungrown, nor was His strength empair’d.

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