462 Chap. io. tinExpofition upon the Book of J 0 g Verf.5. There is yet another difference in the originali about the word man. In the firfl claufe the Hebrew word for man was Enoj,, here it is Geber, which fignifies a íirong man, a mighty man a man of the moll mafculine fpirit, and firongefi body, of themolt vigorous abilities, and greatefi probabilities to live long. A man of brats, and heart of oak, rather then ofclay, and duflof the earth,Lord, thy dayes are not only not as the dayes of Enojh, a weak, tìckly man, but,`Ilyyears are not as the dayes ofGeber, as the dayes of the mightell and healthieft,of.the lirongtfi and floutefi among the Ions of men. Oblerve hence more diflinefly thedifference between the dayes; of God, and the dayes ofnian. Firft, Gods day it the day ofeternity. Maus dayes are but dayes oftime. (IA is laid, To inhabit eter- nity (Ifa. 57.15.) that is, he i5 fixed in eternity, he is without beginning and without end, yea his dayes are without fucccition of dayes. All thedayes of God 'are but a day. Not only are a thoulànd years to him as one day, but eternity is to him as one day. All that God doth is Paid t© be done to day ; Thom art my foil, to day have Ibegotten thee (Pial. a. 7.) yet he (peaks (fay fome) of the eternal generation ofthe Son : or, as it referreth to the refurreaion ofChrift (fo the Apofile expounds it, tiffs 13. 33.) God calls that time, To day, though it came a long time at- ter : all is prefent with God ; Pall and to come in relation to God, is neitherpajt, nor to come, all is non: or to day. That was not pall to God which never had beginning , the eternal' generation of his Son : nor was that to come to God which was alwayes before him : The temporal' refurreétion of his Son, Today have I begot- Tempus eft ten thee, is the molt proper fide for God. menfura homi- Some difiinguifh thus between thefe three, Eternity, Eviterni-. rum hab :FS tyand Time. Eternity is that which is peculiar unto God,hisare Ynerx;pimuil the dayes of eternity. Eviternity is proper to Angels and fpirit:, nitar cf} which have a beginning, but (hall haveno end. Time is the por- A"gelorum tion and lot of than , who hath had a beginning, and than have an principium ha- end. Time is the meafureof thofe things , which adtually cor-- aemmtrniá rupt and change. Eviternity is the meafure ofthings incorrupti= e ro ria hie and unchangeable, not in themfelves, but by the appointment ßp p ofGod. Eternity is peculiar to God in whom it is ablolutely Leo, nee prim Y P , cipiumhabons impotlibleany change fhould be. Time bath continual firccefiions, *cclinen, eternity a confiant permanetncy,eviternity partakes of both.flence The
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