Mans Looking-Glass, Part 2
A GLIMPSE OF THE DIVINE MAJESTY From the Cleft of the ROCK, Exod. 33. 22.
1 BEginning without beginning, End without end.
2 End of beginnings, B…ginning of all ends.
3 First Mover, never mov'd nor m…ving, yet all's motion.
4 Self-sufficient, All-efficient.
5 Whose fiat is fit, He spake the word and it was done.
6 A Circle whose Center is every where, and Circumference no where.
7 To whom all things are excentrique, he concentrique, with all things.
8 Ever green, never growing,
9 Swift without motion.
10 Continuall without time.
11 To whom whatever was and shall be Is
12 now, What Is, was (and ever shall be) present before him.
13 Sees all, unseen of any.
14. All without parts.
15 Good without quality
16 Great without quantity.
17 Unchangeable, yet changes all.
18 A Loadstone without variation.
19 A Ship that swifter than thought sails the compass of All without any compass at all.
20 A bottomless sea, always flowing without reflux.
21 An over-running spring emptying himself into himself
22 Filling all, and full of all.
23 A Sun that never rises nor sets, alwayes in Meridian.
24 Whose beams are his works, whose light is his glory.
25 Is of himself, in himself, every where.
26 Above us, in us, beneath us, yet inaccessible.
27 Wills our best will.
28 Whose would is could, whose will is Act.
29 Day without night.
30 Learning without Letters.
31 Knowledge without defect.
32 Wealth without want.
33 Glory without envy.
34 Pleasure without pain.
35 Joy without grief.
36 Enough without choice.
37 Satiety without fulnes,
38 Peace without trouble.
39 Triumphes without warre.
40 Is all things, yet above and besides us,
41 Known onelyonly to us, that he is onelyonly known to himself.
O how amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of Hosts.Psal. 34. 1.
Immortall, Immutable, Infinite, Invisible, Invincible, Incomprehensible, Almighty, All-sufficient, Mercifull, Liberal, Bountifull, Pure, Wise, Free, Just, Great, Good, Glorious, Gracious, Sole, Single, and the Same, or every of these not in Denomination but Abstract, and but One yet numberless.
These are a part of his ways,Job. 26. 14. but how little a portion do we hear of him who held back the face of his throne, & spreds his clouds over it.
The deeper that we dive in this Abyss,
The more we know the less of what he is.
Vaetacentibus de te quoniam Loquaces muti sunt.
Woe to silence Lord of Hosts,
When th'are dumb that praise thee most.
FINIS.
End of the text · Pierre du Moulin Sr, Mans Looking-Glass (1652)