It is by all Christians confessed, that God is _incomprehensible_; that is to say, that there is nothing can arise in our fancy from the naming of him, to resemble him either in _shape_, _colour_, _stature_, or _nature_; there is no idea of him; he is like nothing that we can think on. What then ought we to say of him? What attributes are to be given him (not speaking otherwise than we think, nor otherwise than is fit,) by those who mean to honour him? None but such as Mr. Hobbes hath set down, namely, expressions of reverence, such as are in use amongst men for signs of honour, and consequently signify _goodness_, _greatness_, and _happiness_; and either absolutely put, as _good_, _holy_, _mighty_, _blessed_, _just_, _wise_, _merciful_, &c., or superlative, as _most good_, _most great_, _most mighty_, _almighty_, _most holy_, &c., or negative of whatsoever is not perfect, as _infinite_, _eternal_, and the like: and not such as neither reason nor Scripture hath approved for honourable. This is the doctrine that Mr. Hobbes hath written, both in his _Leviathan_, and in his book _De Cive_, and when occasion serves, maintains. What kind of attribute, I pray you, is, _immaterial_, or _incorporeal substance_? Where do you find it in the Scripture? Whence came it hither, but from Plato and Aristotle, heathens, who mistook those thin inhabitants of the brain they see in sleep, for so many _incorporeal_ men; and yet allowed them motion, which is proper only to things _corporeal_? Do you think it an honour to God to be one of these? And would you learn Christianity from Plato and Aristotle? But seeing there is no such word in the Scripture, how will you warrant it from natural reason? Neither Plato nor Aristotle did ever write of, or mention, an _incorporeal spirit_. For they could not conceive how a spirit, which in their language was πνεῦμα, in ours _a wind_, could be _incorporeal_. Do you understand the connexion of _substance_ and _incorporeal_? If you do, explain it in English; for the words are Latin. It is something, you will say, that being _without body, stands under_——. Stands under what? Will you say, _under accidents_? Almost all the Fathers of the Church will be against you; and then you are an atheist. Is not Mr. Hobbes his way of attributing to God, that only which the Scriptures attribute to him, or what is never any where taken but for honour, much better than this bold undertaking of yours, to consider and decipher God’s _nature_ to us?