Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

2. God is without end. He always was, always is, and always will be what he is; He remains always the same in Being; so far from any change, that no shadow of it can touch him:^* He will continue in being, as long as he hath already enjoyed it; and if we could add never so many Millions of years together, we are still as far from an end, as from a beginning; for the Lord shall endure for ever: ^*As it is impossible he should not be, being from all Eternity; so it is impossible that he should not be to all Eternity. The Scripture is most plentiful in testimonies of this Eternity of God, à part post, or after the Creation of the world: He is said to live for ever. ^*The Earth shall perish, but God shall endure for ever, and his years shall have no end. Plants and Animals grow up from small beginnings;^* arrive to their full growth and decline again, and have always remarkable alterations in their nature; But there is no declination in God by all the revolutions of time: Hence some think the incorruptibility of the Deity was signified by the Shittim, or Cedar wood, whereof the Ark was made, it being of an incorruptible nature^*.

2. God is without end. He always was, always is, and always will be what he is; He remains always the same in Being; so far from any change, that no shadow of it can touch him:^* He will continue in being, as long as he hath already enjoy'd it; and if we could add never so many Millions of years together, we are still as far from an end, as from a beginning; for the Lord shall endure for ever: ^*As it is impossible he should not be, being from all Eternity; so it is impossible that he should not be to all Eternity. The Scripture is most plentiful in testimonies of this Eternity of God, à parte post, or after the Creation of the world: He is said to live for ever.