• Mr. Gary quotes, Proverbs 8:27:⁠— “When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth,⁠ ⁠… then I was by him.” And Milton, Paradise Lost , VII 224:⁠— “And in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God’s eternal store, to circumscribe This Universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said: lt; ‘Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O World!’ ” ↩
• The Word or Wisdom of the Deity far exceeds any manifestation of it in the creation. ↩
• Shakespeare, Henry VIII , III 2:⁠— “Fling away ambition, By that sin fell the angels.” ↩
• Dryden, “Religio Laici,” 39:⁠— “How can the less the greater comprehend? Or finite reason reach infinity? For what could fathom God is more than He.” ↩
• Milton, Paradise Lost , VII 168:⁠— “Boundless the deep, because I Am, who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.” ↩