Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

1. Let us be deeply affected with our sins long since committed. Though they are past with us, they are in regard of Gods eternity present with him; there is no succession in Eternity, as there is in time: All things are before God at once; our sins are before him, as if committed this moment, though committed long ago. As he is what he is in regard of duration, so he knows what he knows in regard of knowledge. As he is not more than he was, nor shall not be any more than he is, so he always knew what he knows, and shall not cease to know, what he now know's. As himself, so his knowledge is one indivisible point of eternity. He knows nothing, but what he did know from eternity; he shall know no more for the future, than he now knows. Our sins being present with him in his eternity, should be present with us in our regard of remembrance of them, and sorrow for them. What though many years are lapsed, much time run out, and our iniquities almost blotted out of our memory? yet since a thousand years are in Gods sight, and in regard of his eternity but as a day;