A32723:926
Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. In the extension of his duration. [From everlasting to everlasting thou art God.] He was before the world, yet he neither began nor ends: He is not a Temporary, but an Eternal God: It takes in both parts of Eternity, what was before the Creation of the world, and what is after: Though the Eternity of God be one permanent state without succession, yet the Spirit of God suiting himself to the weakness of our conception, divides it into two parts, one past before the foundation of the world, another to come after the destruction of the world; as he did exist before all ages, and as he will exist after all ages.
Many Truths lye couched in the verse.
Many Truths lye coucht in the verse.
1. The World hath a beginning of being. It was not from Eternity, it was once nothing; had it been of a very long duration, some Records would have remained of some memorable actions done of a longer date than any extant.
2. The world owes its Being to the creating Power of God. [Thou hadst formed it] out of nothing into being, Thou, that is God; it could not spring into being of it self; it was nothing; it must have a Former.