The Eterni11 of Go D • .n-ing ofhis life to the end,could be found in hin1 inone infiant;fuch is eternity. Godpoffeffethall things all together,he bath all at once, 11h.S. 58. · Yerily, 't.:erily, I fay untoyor-e, before Abrahamwas, 1 · ~m: As if bee lhould fay, there is no time pafr, prefent or to comewith me; he dotp not fay,be– fore ..Abrahamwas, I was, but Jt~m, and therefore he iseternall. II The reafon whyGodmut\ ' be c:tcrnaU. , He is the difPcnftr oftdl time to others; bee is LorJofall time, all times doe but iifue out from him,as rivers from the fea;he difpenfeth them as it pleafeth him: Pf11l.9o. compareverf. z.•and 3· .together, Before the Mountaines were brought forth, C;'c. evenfrom ever{~tfling to t't'erlafling,thou art God. Thou tur»ej1111an to JeflruElion, andJayeft, Returneyee . tbi!Jren ofmen. Hee fets time to the fons ofmen j where wee {hall fee that this i-s- the property of . him, that is etemall, to fet times and feafons to I · men,&c. The reafo• whyGodmufl: be etei'nali, is this, becaufe he is what he is ofhimfelfe, heeis with– out all caufe,and therforecanhaveno beginning or ending; and therefore he mufl: ofneceffity be without all motion, and without all fucceffion, for aiL.fuccdlion prefitppofech motion, and all motion prefuppofethacaufe and effect; for what– foever is moved, is either move4 from no being to a being, or from an imperfecr, to a more per~ feet being; that is, to be 1Il0ved tG an higher de– gree: now God that bath nothing in him to bee perfected, is not capable ofa further and higher degree. ·
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