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Ote
t
be.
Nature
of
God..
in;o
esbut
litrfe
of
its
owiibeing;
I
befeech.you
confider
the
differencebetweertGOd
and
the creature
,in
this,
when
(I
fayjhee'is
a-prefent
being,
that is
fet forth
inthe
words!
am;
I
fay
the creature injoyes
but
very
little
of its
own
be-
ing;why,becaufe whatfoever
is
paft,it cannot injoy,andwhat-
foever
is to-
come
it
ix-Oyes
not
;
now all
th`at
it
doth
in;oy
of
it feif,
it
is
only what
it
bath
at an
iní
}ant,
this
prefent
inliant
what
it
hath,that
it
may be
Paid
to
be
;
but now
with
God
there
is
nothing
pail,
there
is
nothing
to
come
there
is
nothing
paft,I fay,in
refpeol
of
Gods beeing,
there
is
no-
thing
to
come,but
his
beeing
is
alwayes
prefent,he
ahvayes
faith,
l
am; there£o
"e
Chrift fpeaking.of
his
Divine
Nature,
7r
iv
!
aá
c
in
3ahn
8.58.faith
bee,
Before
Abraham
was,
.I
am; Chrift
1
doth
not
fay,
1 was
before
.4braham
was
, no,
but
before
yLEcV°ECI,
i
yr
fiats.
Abraham
was,
1
am.
Certainly
this had been
no
good
English
to
have fpoken
of
any
creature
If
any
man
fhould
fay
thus,
Before
fuch
a
thing was,
l
am
;
if
any
An-
gel should fay
fo
, this
were no proper fpeech
but
Chrift
faith fo,
Befor6Abraham
was,
I
am,
becaufe Chrift in
re-
gard
of
his
Divine
Nature
hash
no
fücceiliion.of
beeing
at
all
;
wee
cannot
fay
that
God
bath
fo
many years added to
him lince the
world began , God
was
as
eternal
before the
world was,
as
hee
is
now,
or
ever
(hall
bee
;
it
cannot
bee
faid
that
hee
was, nor
will
bee,
butalwayes
it
may
be
faid:
I
am;
I
am, was, and will
bee,
the
difference
of
time, it
is
in
refpec't
of
the
creature
,
not in
refpe&
of God
,
and
that
is
the
reafon -of thofe
phrafes
in
Scripture,
That
a
a Pet.3.8.
thoufand
years
with
God
are
Hs one
day,
and
one
day as
a
thostfand
years; There is no difference of time with God,
at
all
:
And
that
is
the fecund
thing,
therefore
bee alone
.
is excellent.
Thirdly.
, This
beeing
of
God
it
is
in
all
places.
His
ex
-_
cellency
it
is
every where throughout the world
,
and
that,
frli,
Not
virtually
onely
, God
is
not in
every
place
oliely
e:er preJenter
virtually
by his
power,
that
is,
hee-works
in
every
place,but
Dews
Inc
er bee
is
in every place
effentially.Secondly,God
isnot in
may
itbique
punster
place
19
motion,:
from
one
place
to
another,
andfogr4daRlx
Jis