Part I. AN ANTHR OP 0 PATHY. Majefty and Glory; fo the whole. Soul !s in every Part of th~ Body, but mofi: radically in the Heart, moll effecbvdy m the Head, becaufe, Its moll excellent Effefts are from thence produced. So Alcuinus •. God is therefore faid to dwell in the Heavens; becaufe the Angels and the Souls of ble!fed Saints have a clearer and more illu!hious ProfpeCl: and Knowledge of hun, than the Samts on Earth can have, by Reafon of their Dwelling in fo grofs a Habitation. Likewife Palm;ust. -:r:he Scripture oftennmes fays, that God dwells m the Heavens, not that he 1s there m– eluded but to intimate, that he is above all in Majdty, Power, and Operation, fo as that h; cannot be hindered bv any on Earth; as alfo that our Minds may be elevated above the World, fo as that 1ve may have no low, or carnal, or worldly Thoughts of God, &c. To this n1ay be alfo referred, when it is faid, 'l'bat the Holy Gbafl datb refl upail any, as Numb. xi. 25, 26. 2 Kings ii. 15. by which the Diftribution and Energy or Power of his Gifts is intimated. This Spirit is faid to refl upon the Mejjiah, !fa. xi. 2. and !xi. r. which is to be underftood of the Communication of his Gifts in their abfoute Fulnefs 'to Chri!l: according to his Humanity, Pjal. xlv. 7, 8. John iii. 34· The vifible Symbol was the re!l:ing of the Holy Spirit upon Chrifl in the Likenefs of a Do·ve, Matt. iii. 16, &c. ']'JME is afcribed to God ,.,g~~""w~ (in a way of human) Speaking, but is to be underltood ::t""f'"w~ (in a way of Divine DialeCt) of his abfolute Eternity; fometimes the Defcription of God's Eternity is taken from the Nam~s and Differences of Seafons, as YEARS are afcribed unto God, which neverrhelels arc faid to be througlwut all Ge– mrations, Pfal. cii. 24. and jhall have no End, Ver. 2 7. 'I' hat he is the fame, and that his Years jhall not fail, Heb. i. 12. And that the Nttmber of his Years cannot be fearcbed out, as Job xxxvi. 26, DdYS are alfo attributed to him, whence he is called the Ancient of Days, Dan. vii. 9· which are called the Days of Eternity, Micah v. r. 2 Pet. iii. 18. Eternity is defcribed by eternal Time or Times, Rom. xvi. 25. z 'l'im. i. 9· 'J'it. i. 2. and "lW>"' fecula, Ages, by which Term properly Times, and Things done in Time are noted. Eph. iii. 9· Col. i. 26, &c. Sometimes two or three Differences of Time, that Eternity which wants Beginning, InterruptiDit, and End, may be expre!fed, Heb. xiii. 8. Jefus Chrifl the fame (that is, always like himfelf, invariable, and immutable) Yejlerday, 'l'o-day, and for Ever, that is, from Eternity to Eternity, Rev. i. 4· Grace be unto you and Peace, from him whii:h is, and which was, and which is to come, (or will be) that is, who is the eternal God; fo in the. 8th Verfe, there is another Symhol ofEternity I am "and w, Alpha and Omega, the firfi: and !aft Letters of the Greek Alphabet, which denote the Beginning and End of any Thing, which are the Bounds and N<>tes of Time, brought to exprefs him who is the Beginning without Beginning, and the End without End, that is, who is indeed abfo-· lutely eternal; fo Chrifl fpeaks; Chap. xxi. xxii. 13. as is apparent from the Context•. To this may be referred, where the Scripture ufes Words concerning God which re– fpeCl: tht Time to come, whereas in Eternity there is not properly any Time pafl, or to come, as Pfal. cxxxix. 2. 'l'hou underflandefl my ']'bought afar off, that is, long before it came in my Mind, as Verfe 4· l''or there is not a Ward in my 'l'ongue, but lo, 0 Lord, thou knowefl it altogether. It is faid, Rom. viii. 29. For wham he did r.~wy>w,foreknow, be alfo did predeflinate, &c. Ram. xi. 2. Gad bath 11ot cafl away his People, which he fore– kne--&J, &c. 1 Pet. ii. Elected according to the Foreknowledge of God the Father, &c. · D. :Mj/ius, upon Rom. viii. fays thus, God is faid to foreknow fuch as he forefaw would believe in his Son, not thaE there is any future Time properly afcribable to God, in whom no Accident, Condition, or Circumftance of Time and Place can be admitted, but thefe Things are fpoken of God by an Anthropopathy, that is, after the Manner of Men. This PRESCIENCEof God, in as much as it is certain and never fails, therefore fuch as he foreknew he alfo predeftinated, for this Foreknowledge is nev~r without Predef- • Deus ejlt1bique ratione d{entite, &c. lib. de T'ri11it. tap. so• t ln S)tlfagm. Theol. p. 19S• T tination.
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