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The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
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CHAP. V.
4. The Eternity of God is the next Attribute to be Known▪ which also must have its work upon the soul. And 1. This also showeth us that God is Incomprehensible; For man cannot comprehend Eternity. When we go about to think of that which hath no Beginning nor End, it is to our mind, as a place a thousand miles off is to our eye; even beyond our reach; we cannot say there is no such place, yea we know there is; but we cannot see it: so we know there is an Eternal Being; but our Knowledge of his Eternity is not intuitive, or comprehensive▪ Eternity therefore is the object of our faith, and reverence, and admiration, but forbids our busy bold enquiries, O the arrogancy of those ignorantly▪ learned, and foolishly-wise disputing men, that have so long perplexed, if not torn in pieces the Church, about the priority and posteriority of▪ the knowledge and decrees of God, when they confess them all to be Eternal! As if they knew not that terms of priority, presentiality, and posteriority, have not that significancy in or about Eternity as they have with us!
4. THe Eternity of God is the next Attribute to be Known▪ which also must have its work upon the soul. And 1. This also sheweth us that God is Incomprehensible; For man cannot comprehend Eternity. When we go about to think of that which hath no Beginning nor End, it is to our mind, as a place a thousand miles off is to our eye; even beyond our reach; we cannot say there is no such place, yea we know there is; but we cannot see it: so we know there is an Eternal Being; but our Knowledge of his Eternity is not intuitive, or comprehensive▪ Eternity therefore is the object of our faith, and reverence, and admiration, but forbids our busie bold enquiries, O the arrogancy of those ignorantly▪ learned, and foolishly-wise disputing men, that have so long perplexed, if not torn in pieces the Church, about the priority and posteriority of the knowledge and decrees of God, when they confess them all to be Eternal! As if they knew not that terms of priority, presentiality, and posteriority, have not that significancy in or about Eternity as they have with us!