,, 1 1';-o Gotl no– time is either long or thor~ The.. Bterni#1 of Go n . . are pafi,are (as itwere) prefent to him,as we heard 'before; Befo:e AbrahamwaJ, 1am: For hee pof .. feffeth all thmgs together; by reafon of the vafr– neife oJhis being, tohim all things are prefent. ·As he that tlands upon an high Mountaine, and lookes downe (it is ajimile that the Schoole·men often ufe;)though -to the_paifenger that goes by, forne ~rebefore, fame behinde, yet to him they are all prefent. So though one generation paf– feth, and another commeth; yer toGod, that in– habits and ilands upon eternity, they a{e the fame,they are all prefeAt, there is no difference. ,Andth~n this followes from hence, that to God no time is either longor fhort, but all times are alike to him; therefore he ~s not fub jeCl to any delay.es or expeltances; he ts not fub jeet' to any feares, for they are ofthing5 to come 3 nor to the 1 pafiion of griefe, or pleafure, or tlac lo{fe ofany excellencie, that ~eforebee had nor,- as all crea– tures are; thereforewe lhould confider ofthe ex– cellency of God:, togivebim the praife·ofit: this ufe is made of it, in I Tim. I. 17. Nowunto the -King eternal!, immortaU, invijible, ~tnd the onely n:ifo G o D , be honour, 11ndglory for ever 11nd ever, .Amen. As ifhe (hould fay; this v~ry conftderation~ that God is erernali,thould caufe us to give·himpraife, I{ai. f7.1f• CtmftEJ. '· Bternitic makes good things infi~ nitclygood, cvill thingfl in• finitely cviU. and fo isrhat inlfoi. 57.15 . ·· ·. . .:' Ete~nity makes that which is good,to be infi:.. nitely more good than it is, and that which is evill tobemuch more evill ; and that nor onely in refpeet ofduration (that which is good for a weeke~ is better for ayeer~; and an eviiJ,when it con-
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