S Verf. 26. an Expoftion ern t ae Bock of J e B. \ Chap. 36. Cuchmore eafily may we tell howmany years the oidefl alma bath lived:What then (hall we think of him the number of whofe years cannot be fearched out ? this can fpeaknothing lefs than evertall- ingneis. And this eternity or everlaflingnefs of God , though it ' 'be impartible, yet it bath, I may fay, a double refpe6t : Fittt, to what went before ; Secondly, to what is to come. The eternity ot: God is fuchascannot be fearched out,either as to what is paff, . ternrtas or to what is to come ; indeed unto God there is nothing pall tectpora amnia. or tocome ; for_etemity, properly taken, is an everlafting Now, Yin utisfucc it is not that which pafleth or moveth awry ; and therefore fo:te silitter c.o a '?mpte of the Ancients elegantly defcribeecernity, tobe theperfeËt enjoy- Ærernitas el trserra ofbleyfed life all at once ; which becaufe it is all at once to- t'ite beste gether and perfe&, cannot be altered nor . lefsned. In eternity tosa fAtu! et that which is pail isprefenr, yea that which is to corne is prefent perf8Flapò f iñ aneternal blefred life._' its fo with God, and fo in proportion fro, Boetius. with all thole whoare entred into eternity, whatfoever they have arnuat IA efíç et had is álwayés prefent with them, Horace they in the expe&ation aotum fnnud ofanything tocome ; theyy enjoy all in every morfent, without ems, Gt arih 1; the want of any thing. ris much more fo with God ; though deeff . Greg. i. 16. Moral. years have .fucceffwn,yet ché years of God have no fucceffion of c_ 21. times or things.._ ]Erernunt eft Further, The eternity of God ,which lies under this defcrip- imrtu abite et tion,'7hoN,wmber ofhis years cannot befearched oat, is not apar- totíirtt ixnpar- Eicrtlat attribute of God, but that which difufeth it felf chcough nyf.ca Dig all his atttributes; he is eternal! in all ; there is no fearching out to. de divinis the Number of the years Of any of the perfections of God ; his Notain: Wifdorne is eternal,and his Power is eternal,and his Goodnefs is eternal, and his Juflice is eternal; there is no fearching out the Number of the years ofGod in any of thefe perfections. Hence Note God is an eternal being; His years come not under account, or number. God is eter nal, not only without end, as created Spirits are, but without be- ginning;which no creature is,nor can be ; He .is eternal,not only r= stabiii without end or beginning, but without fuccefion or mutation. fg' Some of the Ancients. cell us, Eterni4y funds fait, but moves all llasndat eunfla onoveri: other things. The eternal God is the ñcfi Mover, himfclEking ätoet:deCon- immoveable. If fo, then Fir fob Metro 9.
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