than essence, if we have the essence of a man, yet not of the heavens, or of angels. We are confined and limited within a particular essence; but God, who is what he is, comprehendeth all possible essences.” Nor is this precariously spoken, or as what may be hoped to be granted upon courtesy; but let the matter be rigidly examined and discussed, and the certain truth of it will most evidently appear. For if anything be, in this sense, remoter than other from no-being, it must either be, what is necessarily