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OMNIP'OTENT, f One of the appellations of the 
Godhead.—So fpake the Omnipotent. Milton. 
Fool ! not to think how vain 
A gain ft the Omnipotent to rife in arms. Milton. 
OMNIP'OTENTLY, adv. Powerfully without limit. 
—And, to clofe all, omnpiotently kind. Young's Night T/i. 
OMNIPRES ENCE, or Omnipresency, / [omnis and 
prcefentia, Lat.] Ubiquity; unbounded prefence.—Lofe 
not the advantage of folitude, and the fociety of thyfelf; 
nor be only content, but delight, to be alone and lingle 
with OmniprcJcncij. Brown's Chr. Mor. 
Adam, thou know’ll his omniprefence fills 
land, fea, and air. Milton. 
“The Omniprefence of God” has been infilled on, 
and beautifully illuftrated, by Dr. Rees, editor of the 
New Cyclopaedia. 
“As God is infinitely perfeCl, he mull be every-where 
prefent. If we fet limits to the prefence of God, we pro- 
portionably degrade his excellence, and diminilh his per¬ 
fection. If he does not exiftand aft every-where, he is 
fo far an imperfeft being. Beiides, if we deny the exift- 
ence and agency of God in any one place, we may deny 
that heexifts and afts in every other ; and, confequently, 
he does not exiftby that kind of necelTity of nature, which 
belongs to the underived and felf-exillent being. But, 
waving thefe more abftrufe demonftrations of the omni¬ 
prefence of God; (demonftrations, however, that are fa- 
tisfa&ory and convincing to thofe who are accuftomed to 
this kind of reafoning;) we may obferve, that God is, 
wherever he atts; and we perceive traces of the divine 
agency every-where around us. The vifibie creation is 
in this fenfe full of God. There is not a point of fpace, 
there is not an atom of matter, which does not bear tefti- 
niony to the prefence and influence of God ; and, as it is 
a firft principle that no being can a£l where it is not, the 
agency of God, which is univerlal, muft evince his uni- 
verfal prefence. Wherever we difcern an effeft, there 
muft be a caufe; and of courfe all the matter and the mo¬ 
tion which we obferve in the univerfe conftrains us to 
admit the vital prefence, and conftant energy, of the 
Almighty. Without God, the univerfe would be a 
chaos. The fun and liars, that gild the firmament by day 
and by night, would be extinguilhed. The planetary 
worlds that move around them in regular order and unin¬ 
terrupted harmony would ceafe to move ; their arrange¬ 
ment would be dilturbed; their mutual influence be fuf- 
pended; and they would no longer ferve any of the bene¬ 
ficial purpofes to which they are adapted. Life, more 
efpecially, in all the varieties and gradations of it, from 
that of the meaneit infedt to the higheft rank of intelli¬ 
gence, in its continuance, and in its fuccelfion and re¬ 
newal, indicates the prefence and agency of God. Every 
living being owes the origin and the permanence of its 
exiftence to the Deity ; and wherever, therefore, life is 
produced, fuftained, and prolonged, w'e behold undeni¬ 
able evidence of his prefdnce and influence. Moreover, 
as the univerfe, wherever we are able to extend our view's, 
exhibits difplays of counfel and agency, there mult be an 
intelligent agent, whereloever we fee the elfedls of wif- 
dom and activity. But the declarations and difcoveries 
of revelation with regard to the omniprefence of God, 
fuperfede the neceflity of every kind of reafoning. The 
Scriptures abound with very animated and impreflive 
defcriptions of this divine attribute; and we need only 
perufe them frequently and ferioufly, in order to awaken 
in our minds jult conceptions of it, and to render the fen- 
timents we thus acquire permanently beneficial. Whither, 
fays the Pfalmift,y/ic// 1 go from thy jpirit, i. e. from thee; 
or whitherfall I flee from thy prefence l If I afeend up into 
heaven, thou art there ; if I make my led in hell, or in the 
grave, behold thou art there. If I take the wings of the 
morning, and dwell in the uttermofl parts of the fea, even 
there Jhall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand Jhall hultf 
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me. If I fay, furely the darknefs Jhall cover me, even the 
night Jhall be light about me ; yea, the darknefs hideth not 
from thee ; but the night Jhineth as the day. The darknefs 
and the light are both alike to thee." Sermons, 1809. 
OMNIPRES'ENT, adj. Ubiquitary ; prefent in every 
place : 
Omnifcient mafter, omniprefent king, 
To thee, to thee, my lalt diftrefs I bring. Prior. 
OMNIPRESEN'TIAL, adj. Implying unbounded pre¬ 
fence.—His omniprefential filling all things, being an in- 
feparable property of his divine nature, always agreed to 
him. South. 
OMNIRE'GENCY, f. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
rego, to rule.] Univerlal dominion. Cole. 
OMNIS'CIENCE, or Omniscienc y, f. [omnis and fei- 
entia, Lat.] BoundTefs knowledge ; infinite wifdom.—In 
all this mifconftrmSion of my actions, as I have no judge 
but God above me, fo I can have comfort to appeal to 
his omnfcience. King Chaides. —Thinking by retirement 
to obfeure himfelf from God, Adam infringed the omni- 
Jciency and eflential ubiquity of his Maker, who, as he 
created all things, is beyond and in them all. Brown. —An 
immenfe Being does lirangely fill the foul ; and omnipo¬ 
tency, omnifciency, and infinite goodnefs, enlarge the 
fpirit. Burnet. 
Since thou boaft’ft th 'omnifcience of a God, 
Say in wdiat cranny of Sebaftian’s foul. 
Unknown to me, fo loath’d a crime is lodg’d ? Dryden. 
OMNIS'CIENT, adj. Infinitely wife; knowing with¬ 
out bounds; knowing every tiling.—By no means trull; 
to your own judgment alone ; for no man is omnifcient . 
Bacon's Adv. to Villiers. 
Omnifcient mafter, omniprefent king. 
To thee, to thee, my lalt diftrefs I bring. - Prior. 
OMNIS'CIOUS, adj. All-knowing. Not in ufe .—I dare 
not pronounce him omnijeious, that being an attribute in¬ 
dividually proper to the Godhead, and incommunicable 
to any created fubftance. Hakewill on Providence. 
OMNITE'NENT, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
teneo, to hold.] Holding ail things. Cole. 
OMNITIN'ERENT, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
■ iter, a journey.] Travelling every-where. Cole. 
OMNIVA'GANT, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
vagor, to wander.] Wandering every-where. 
OMNIV'ALENT, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
valeo, to be able.] Able to do all things. Cole. 
OM'NIUM, J\ [Latin.] The aggregate of certain por¬ 
tions of different flocks in the public funds. Mafon .—You 
are my omnium. Coleman's Polly Honeycomb. 
OM'NIUM-GATH'ERUM. A cant-term for a mifcel- 
laneous collection of things or perfons.—At a folemn 
dancing, firft you had the grave meafures ; then the co- 
rantoes: at length to Trenchmore, anti the cuibion- 
dance ; and then all the company dances, lord and groom, 
lady and kitchen-maid ; no diftin&ion. So, in our court 
in queen Elizabeth’s time, gravity and ftate were kept up. 
In king James’s time things were pretty well. Butin 
king Charles’s time there has been nothing but Trench- 
more, and the cufhion-dance, omnium-gatherum, &c. Sel- 
den's Table Talk. 
OMNIV'OLENT, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
volo, to be willing.] Willing in all things. Cole. 
OMNIV'OROUS, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
voro, to devour.] Devouring all things.—He has not ob- 
ferved on the nature of vanity, who does not know that 
it is omnivorous. Burke. 
O'MO, a frnall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, near 
the eaft coaft of Amboyna. Lat. 3. 31. S. Ion. 128. 51. E. 
OMO'A, or St. Francisco de Omoa, a feaport-town 
and fort of Mexico, in the province of Honduras. It is 
confidered as a fortrefs of importance, the key of Hon¬ 
duras, and in time of war, the receptacle of the treafure 
fent from Guatimala.' Lat. 15. 50. N. Ion. 89. 53. W. 
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