A Treatise on Divine Union Author:Thomas Cogswell Upham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. ON THE GREATNESS AND SUPREMACY OF GOD. Greatness predicated of God alone. — The greatness of God original, self-sustained, eternal. — Of the su... more »premacy of God. — Relation of these views to man. It is a principal object, in this part of our work, to obtain some correct and impressive views of the nature of the Divine Existence, in order to learn how man has separated himself from a state of union with God, and also to learn, in the methods and results of his departure, the necessity, the methods, and the results, of his return. The remarks which we shall have occasion to make, although it may not be entirely obvious at first, will be found, in the issue, to have an intimate relation with the great subject before us. Accordingly, we proceed from the consideration of the Eternity and Omnipresence of God, to a few remarks on his Supremacy. 2. "Goo Only is Great." Such were the concise but triumphant expressions with which Massillon, the distinguished religious orator, commenced his funeral discourse, on the occasion of the death of Louis XIV. Never was a more correct sentiment uttered by human lips. And never was there a more appropriate occasion of its utterance. Who would dare to appropriate the epithet Great to himself, when he, who had received it from a nation's voice for half a century, had fallen at the slightest touch of Providence ? — the crown removed from his temples, the sceptre wrested from his hands, and his form changed to dust and ashes. That certainly was a suitable time for a minister of God, whose business it is to measure the human by the divine, and to adjust the temporary to the eternal, to detach an epithet, which has so often been wrongly placed, from its human application, and to append it to God alone. Massillou, in the utterance ...« less