02.55. God's Attributes Unlimited

55. GOD’S ATTRIBUTES UNLIMITED. The Psalmist reprehends a practice prevalent both in his day and now of "limiting the holy One or Israel" (Psalms 78:41), of placing boundaries to the abilities of the divine attributes. Infinite, they are without limitation, and it is a sort of profanity to adopt any conclusions that place bounds to them, and yet many Christians represent God as like the foolish man:

"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, this man began to build, and was not able to finish" (Luke 14:28-30).