Proofs 3–4: nothing greater than God; first being contains all perfection
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THIRD, I prove that God is extensively and intensively infinite thus.For every finite being something else can be more perfect and greater.For God nothing can be more perfect and greater.Therefore God is not a finite being.
FOURTH, God has every perfection of being, because the absolute first, on which all the rest depend, necessarily exceeds all remaining beings by His perfection.Therefore He contains every perfection of theirs in Himself in a more eminent manner, and powers which can never be so exhausted that they cannot bring forth new species and perfections of things.
Latin
TERTIO, Deum extensive & intensive infinitum esse ita evinco. Omni ente finito potest aliud esse perfectius & majus. Deo nihil potest esse perfectius & majus. Ergo Deus non est ens finitum. QUARTO, Deus habet omnem entis perfectionem, quia absolutum primum, unde caetera omnia dependent, necessario perfectione sua excedit reliqua omnia entia. Ergo omnem eorum perfectionem eminentiori modo in se continet, et potentia quae numquam ita exhauriri possunt ut non novas rerum species & perfectiones depromere possint.