This globe of the earth, if we attempt to conceive of it, appears a thing of a mighty bulk. Some other of the heavenly hosts are immensely greater in bulk. The sun is a body in comparison of which the earth is but a little speck, but this is as nothing in comparison of the whole universe or only of the visible part of the universe, which far exceeds our comprehension. It is almost beyond the power of numbers to express according to the certain discoveries of learned men. It must needs be of an amazing extent, and how much farther it extends than has been yet discovered. How far beyond the remotest parts of it that can be seen by the naked eye or assisted by artificial helps we can’t tell. But this we know, that it can’t be infinite.

An infinite thing can’t be made up of finite things. However large it is, it doesn’t come at all the nearer to infinite for that. A pebble or a grain of sand is as near infinite as the world is, but God is infinite.

- Jonathan Edwards, God Is Everywhere Present


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