If we could
have thoughts of him, as high and excellent as his nature; our conceptions must
be as infinite as his nature. All our imaginations of him cannot represent him,
because every created species is finite; it cannot therefore represent to us a
full and substantial notion of an infinite being. We cannot speak or think
worthily enough of him, who is greater than our words, vaster than our
understandings. No creature, nor all creatures together, can furnish us with
such a magnificent notion of God, as can give us a clear view of him. Yet God in his word is pleased to step below his
own excellence, and point us to those excellences in his works, whereby we may
ascend to the knowledge of those excellences which are in his nature. But the
creatures, whence we draw our lessons being finite, and our understandings
being finite, it is utterly impossible to have a notion of God commensurate to
the immensity and spirituality of his being. --Charnock