Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

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If the hoary head be such a Crown of Glory, if it puts honour upon men, What then doth eternity it self put upon God? If men be to be honoured because of a few years here in this world, how is God to be honoured then that is eternal? God doth glory himself in his eternity, I am he that inhabiteth eternity. And the Elders in Revel. 4.8. they fell down and worshipped him that was, and is, and shall be for evermore. I remember Pareus tells us of a custom of the Turks, that they use every morning to have one proclaim aloud, The lord that was, and that shall be for ever, the Lord is eternal, he hath no beginning at all. Thou art but of yesterday, though thou hast lived now many years, the Lord he shall have no end at all, but though thou livest long, yet it will be said within a little time, such an one lived so many years and is dead; as it is in Gen. 5. There Methuselah and others lived thus and thus many years, and Adam and others, and they died. And I have read of one that hearing that Chapter read, that such an one lived so many hundred years and he died, and such an one lived so many hundred years and he died, it made such an impression upon his spirit, as took him off from all the things of the world, and caused him to mind the provision of his eternal estate, and was the cause of his conversion, by reading the years of so many mens ages, and yet they dyed. Remember it must be said one day, such a man was seventy or eighty years Old and he dyed, but God abides for ever, we are but as grass. And therefore if God will have honour put upon you because of your Age, put you honour upon God because of his ⟨p. 431⟩eternity: God he can have no time added to his time, there is no succession of time with him, God cannot be said to have continued, or to have lived a longer time now, than he did live before the world began, there is no time added to him, he is beyond all measure of time, and it is good for us when we enjoy any continuance of time in any comfort, to worship the eternal God, to have our hearts to delight in that eternal God that is beyond all time. It is a very observable place that we have in Genesis concerning Abraham, it is in