And truly ’tis not to be Admired that _God_ in Creating me should _Imprint_ this _Idea_ in me, that it may there remain as a _stamp impressed_ by the _Workman God_ on _me_ his _Work_, neither is it requisite that this _stamp_ should be a Thing _different_ from the _Work_ it self, but ’tis very Credible (from hence only that _God Created_ me) that I am made as it were according to his _likeness_ and _Image_, and that the same _likeness_, in which the _Idea_ of God is contain’d, is _perceived_ by Me with the _same faculty_, with which I _perceive my Self_; That is to say, whilst _I reflect_ upon my self, _I_ do not only _perceive_ that I am an _Imperfect_ thing, having my _dependance_ upon some other thing, and that I am a Thing that Desires _more_ and _better_ things _Indefinitely_; But also at the same time I understand, that _He_ on whom I _depend_ contains in him all those _wish’d for things_ (not only _Indefinitely_ and _Potentially_, but) _Really_, _Indefinitely_; and that therefore he is _God_. The whole stress of which * Argument lies thus, because I know it Impossible for Me to Be of the same Nature I am, _Viz._ Having the _Idea_ of a _God_ in me, unless really there were a _God_, a _God_ (I say) that very _same God_, whose _Idea I_ have in my _Mind_ (that is, Having all those _perfections_, which I cannot _comprehend_, but can as it were _think upon them_) and who is not _subject_ to any _Defects_. By which ’tis evident that _God_ is no _Deceiver_; for ’tis manifest by the _Light_ of _Nature_, that all _fraud_ and _deceit_ depends on some _defect_. But before I prosecute this any farther, or pry into other _Truthes_ which may be deduced from this, I am willing here to stop, and dwell upon the Contemplation of this _God_, to Consider with my self His _Divine Attributes_, to behold, admire, and adore the Loveliness of this _Immense light_, as much as possibly I am able to accomplish with my _dark_ Understanding. For as by _Faith_ we _believe_ that the greatest _happiness_ of the _next Life_ consists alone in the _Contemplation_ of the _Divine Majesty_, so we _find_ by _Experience_ that now we receive from thence the greatest _pleasure_, whereof we are capable in _this Life_; Tho it be much more _Imperfect_ then that in the _Next_. MEDITAT. IV. _Of Truth and Falshood._