35. God in his own essence incognisable.
For it is infinity, which, joined to our ideas of existence, power,
knowledge, etc., makes that complex idea, whereby we represent to ourselves, the best we can, the Supreme
Being. For, though in his own essence (which certainly we do not know, not knowing the real essence of a pebble,
or a fly, or of our own selves) God be simple and uncompounded; yet I think I may say we have no other idea of
him, but a complex one of existence, knowledge, power, happiness, etc., infinite and eternal: which are all distinct
ideas, and some of them, being relative, are again compounded of others: all which being, as has been shown,
originally got from sensation and reflection, go to make up the idea or notion we have of God.
