Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

and then as thou art able to comprehend, the Scriptures will discover that before God made the world in that long-long Evum of eternity, he was doing these things,— 1. Some things in relation to himself. 2. Some things in relation to his creatures.

1. Some things in relation to himself; and those things were either proper, or common to the three persons. 1. The things proper to each of the persons were those internal, incommunicable actions of God, as 1. To beget; and that belongs only to the Father, who is neither made, nor created, nor begotten of any. 2. To be begotten; and that belongs only to the Son, who is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. 3. To proceed from both; and that belongs only to the Holy ⟨p. 40⟩Ghost, who is of the Father, and the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. And these were Gods actions in that eternity before all worlds: the Father was begetting God the Son: the Son was begotten of God the Father, the Holy Ghost was proceeding from God the Father, and God the Son. But what, were these actions of God, never in action during all that eternity? yes; as they are called internal actions, so they are permanent; look as the Sun doth always beget his beams, and both Sun and beams do send forth the heats: So the Father from all eternity ever did, and now doth, and ever will beget his Son, and both the Father and the Son ever did and now do, and ever will aspire and breath forth the Holy Ghost: And therefore Origin saith well,¹ Our Jesus is the brightness of Gods glory; now the brightness of glory is not once begotten, and then afterwards leaves to be begotten; but as often as the glory riseth from whence the brightness springeth, so often doth the brightness of glory arise. Before the hills, was I brought forth. Some translate thus, ante cols generat, and not as others, generavit me, before the mountains were settled he begetteth me. Surely the Son of God is ever begetting, and the Holy Spirit is ever proceeding.