2Ú0 Aph..4. ELcil'.s T.1.. D3 11 9,*1 3 P,oY.3.zC. A chaino "Princt les .f §. ,. Next followeth the third di- nAenfon, which is Longitude, in this exprefsion, The meafure thereof is longer then the earth. For the better 'lacing whereof let it be conldered that whereas the word here tranflated Mea- fore relateth not to extenfion onely, but alto to duration and the earthhash a double longitude one of (pace the other ofcontinuance which the Scri- pture taketh fpecial notice of in other texts, as in that of Ecclefales, Onege- neration path aTay, and another genera- tion comet') : but the earth abided)for ever. I conceive the latter may here be al- luded to, viz, the earths long continu- ance, as in Ionic low proportion fit to referable that everlaíting duration of God, which cannot be adequately re- prefented by any creature. Sure I am by the Ancient of days in Daniel the eter. nal Jehovah is defcribed 3 by length of days in wifdomes right hand, ofwhich in the Proverbs, many Interpreters nn- derand theblefsings ofEternity: And this
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