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BEFORE we proceed to consider the divine perfections, as stated in this answer, let it be premised, that it is impossible for any one to give a perfect description of God; since he is incomprehensible.
在我们照本答案所述继续考察神圣的完全之前，先要声明：任何人都不可能对上帝作出完美的描述；因为祂是不可测度的。

No words can fully express, or set forth, his perfections.
任何言语都不能完全表达或陈明祂的完全。

When the wisest men on earth speak of him, they soon betray their own weakness, or discover, as Elihu says, that they ‘cannot order their speech by reason of darkness,’ or that ‘they are but of yesterday, and know,’ comparatively, ‘nothing.’l
当地上最智慧的人谈论祂时，他们很快就显出自己的软弱；或者如以利户所说，他们“因黑暗不能安排言语”，或者“不过从昨日才有，所知道的”相较之下“算不得什么”。l

When we speak of the infinite perfections of the divine nature, we are but like children, talking of matters above them, which their tender age can take in but little of.
当我们谈论神性那无限的完全时，我们不过像孩子谈论超过他们的事，他们幼嫩的年岁只能领会很少。

‘This knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain to it.’
“这样的知识奇妙，是我不能测的；至高，是我不能及的。”

‘How little a portion is heard of him?’n
“我们所听于祂的何其少呢？”n

But though God cannot be perfectly described, yet there is something of him which we may know, and ought to make the matter of our study and diligent inquiries.
然而，虽然上帝不能被完美地描述，但关于祂仍有一些是我们可以知道的，并且应当成为我们研习与殷勤探求的内容。

When his glory is set forth in scripture, we are not to look upon the expressions made use of, as words without any ideas affixed to them,—for it is one thing to have adequate ideas of an infinitely perfect being, and another thing to have no ideas at all of him;
当圣经陈明祂的荣耀时，我们不可把所用的措辞看作没有任何观念附着其上的言语——因为，对一位无限完全者拥有相称的观念是一回事，对祂全无任何观念又是另一回事；

neither are our ideas of God, though imperfect, to be for this reason reckoned altogether false,—for it is one thing to think of him in an unbecoming way, not agreeable to his perfections, or to attribute the weakness and imperfection to him which do not belong to his nature, and another thing to think of him, with the highest and best conceptions we are able to entertain of his infinite perfections, while, at the same time, we have a due sense of our own weakness and the shallowness of our capacities.
我们对上帝的观念虽然不完全，也不可因此就被全然算为虚假——因为，以不合宜、与祂的完全不相称的方式去想祂，或把不属于祂本性的软弱与不完全归给祂是一回事；而以我们所能持守的最崇高、最良善的观念去思想祂的无限完全，同时对我们自己的软弱与悟性的浅薄有应有的自觉，又是另一回事。

When we thus order our thoughts concerning the great God, though we are far from comprehending his infinite perfections, yet our conceptions are not to be concluded erroneous, when directed by his word.
当我们这样整肃我们关于伟大上帝的思想时，虽然我们远不能领会祂无限的完全，但当这些观念由祂的圣言引导时，就不可断定为错误。

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Table of Contents
目录

The Attributes of God
上帝的属性

General view of the Divine Attributes
对神圣属性的总览

The Spirituality of God
上帝的灵性

The Self-Existence of God
上帝的自有永有

The Infinitude of God
上帝的无限

The All-Sufficiency of God
上帝的全足

The Eternity of God
上帝的永恒

The Immutability of God
上帝的不变

The Incomprehensibility of God
上帝的不可测度

The Omnipresence of God
上帝的无所不在

The Omnipotence of God
上帝的全能

The Omniscience of God
上帝的全知

The Wisdom of God
上帝的智慧

The Holiness of God
上帝的圣洁

The Justice of God
上帝的公义

The Beniguity of God
上帝的仁慈

The Goodness of God
上帝的良善

The Mercy of God
上帝的怜悯

The Grace of God
上帝的恩典

The Patience of God
上帝的忍耐

The Faithfulness of God
上帝的信实

NOTES.—The Communicable and the Incommunicable perfections of God
注释——上帝可传递与不可传递的完全

The Supremacy of God
上帝的至高主权

The Unity of God
上帝的合一

NOTES.—Proofs of the Unity of God from reason
注释——从理性而来的上帝合一之证明

Knowledge of the Unity of God among the heathen
外邦人中对上帝合一的认识

The Simplicity of God
上帝的纯一性