Chapter 9: On the infinity of God; extensive and intensive
CHAPTER NINE. On the infinity of God.
And these things concerning the first attribute of God, namely absolute necessity of existing: there follows the second, namely I. Infinity, which here is the highest perfection of the divine essence, without any limit or boundary. The vocabulary of INFINITY we here borrow from those things which otherwise are properly attributed to quantity.
But God is said in two ways to lack a term of His perfection, namely extensively and intensively. Extensively, because His nature is not precisely limited to one genus of perfections, but in itself encloses all genera of perfections whatever can be thought or be in any way, and that infinitely. And so God is called simply and absolutely perfect, because every perfection so necessarily inheres in Him that none at all can be lacking to Him.
Latin
CAPUT NONUM, De infinitate Dei. Atque haec de primo Dei attributo, nempe absoluta exsistendi necessitate: sequitur alterum, nimirum I. Infinitas, quae hic est, summa essentiae divinae perfectio, omni termino ac limite carens. INFINITATIS vocabulum hic mutuamur ab iis, quae quantitati alias proprie tribuuntur. Dicitur autem Deus duobus modis perfectionis suae termino carere, extensive videlicet & intensive. Extensive, quia ejus natura non est praecise limitata ad unum genus perfectionum, sed in se concludit omnia perfectionum genera, quaecunque cogitari aut esse ullo modo possunt, idque in infinitum. Atque ita Deus simpliciter & absolute perfectus dicitur, quia omnis perfectio illi ita necessario inest, ut nulla prorsus illi deesse queat.