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The Addisonian Miscellany, a Selection From the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian. to Which Is Prefixed, the Life of Joseph Addison
The Addisonian Miscellany a Selection From the Spectator Tatler and Guardian to Which Is Prefixed the Life of Joseph Addison Author:Joseph Addison General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1801 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: We fhall therefore utterly extinguifh this melancho- ly thought, of our being overlooked by pur Maker in trie multiplicity of his works, and the infinity of thofe objects among which he feems to be inceflantly employed, if we confider, in the firft place, that he is omniprefent ; and in tlic fecond, that he is omni- fcient. If we confider him in his omniprefence, his Being pxfles through, aŁtuates and fupports the rhole frame of nature. His creation, and every part of it, is full of hi.11. There is nothing he has made, that is either fo dHtant, fo little, or fo inconfiderable, which he does not eflentklly inhabit. His fubftance is within the fubllince of every being, whether material, or immaterial, and as intimately prefent to it, as that Being is . to itfiif. It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into another, oc towrhdraw himfelf from any thing he has created, 0: from any part of that fpace which is diffufed and fpread abroad to infinity. In fhort, to fpcak of hint in the language of the old philofapher, he is a Being whofe centre is every where, and his circumference no where. In the fecond place, he is omriifcient as well as omniprefent. His omnifcience indeed neceflarily and naturally flows from his oirraiprefence ; he cannot but be confcious of every motion that arifes in the whole material world, which he thus eflentiallv pervades, and of every thought that is ftirring in the intellectual world, to every part of which he is thus intimately- united. Several moralifts have confidered the creation as the Temple of God, which he has built with his owrt hands,...« less