33. Our complex idea of God.
For if we examine the idea we have of the incomprehensible Supreme Being, we
shall find that we come by it the same way; and that the complex ideas we have both of God, and separate spirits,
are made of the simple ideas we receive from reflection: v.g. having, from what we experiment in ourselves, got
the ideas of existence and duration; of knowledge and power; of pleasure and happiness; and of several other
qualities and powers, which it is better to have than to be without; when we would frame an idea the most suitable
we can to the Supreme Being, we enlarge every one of these with our idea of infinity; and so putting them
together, make our complex idea of God. For that the mind has such a power of enlarging some of its ideas,
received from sensation and reflection, has been already shown.
