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CHAPTER TWELVE.On the immensity of God.
These things concerning the fourth attribute of God, namely immutability: there follows the fifth.Immensity, which is GOD's highest perfection, by which He is free from circumscription and from local presence defined to a certain and determined space.
The material in this attribute also is the same as in the others, namely GOD's most eminent perfection.But the formal consists in the negation of circumscription and of defined local presence.From which, creatures and places now being posited, there follows omnipresence or ubiquity, which can be considered in a threefold ratio: of knowledge; of voluntary operation; of essence — which third we chiefly allege when we call God immense and hence omnipresent.
Latin
CAPUT DUODECIMUM, De immensitate Dei. Haec de quarto Dei attributo, nempe immutabilitate: sequitur quintum. Immensitas, quae est summa DEI perfectio, qua ille expers est circumscriptionis et praesentiae localis definitae ad certum determinatumque spatium. Materiale quidem etiam in hoc attributo idem est quod in aliis, eminentissima videlicet DEI perfectio. Formale vero in negatione circumscriptionis et praesentiae localis definitae. Ex quo sequitur, positis jam creaturis et locis, omnipraesentia sive ubiquitas, quae triplici ratione considerari potest: 1. ratione cognitionis; 2. ratione voluntariae operationis; 3. ratione essentiae, quam tertiam potissimum afferimus quando Deum dicimus immensum et hinc omnipraesentem.