. I am that only one who is self-originant,
causa sui
, whose will must be contemplated as antecedent in idea to or deeper than his own co-eternal being. But 'antecedent,' 'deeper,' &c. are mere
vocabula impropria
, words of accommodation, that may suggest the idea to a mind purified from the intrusive phantoms of space and time, but falsify and extinguish the truth, if taken as adequate exponents.
Ib.
p. 69. C.
We affirm that it is not only as impious and irreligious a thing, but as senseless and as absurd a thing, to deny that the Son of God hath redeemed the world, as to deny that God hath created the world.
A bold but a true saying. The man who, cannot see the redemptive agency in the creation has but a dim apprehension of the creative power.
Ib.