An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

First, Such as have had a beginning, and shall have an end, and be no more. Thus it is with all mere sensitive Creatures, the Beasts of the Earth, and Fowls of the Air; they perish, there's an end of their being, when they die, or come to the end of their lives.

First, Such as have had a beginning, and shall have an end, and be no more. Thus it is with all meer sensitive Creatures, the Beasts of the Earth, and Fowls of the Ayre; they perish, there's an end of their being, when they die, or come to the end of their lives.

Secondly, There are other things which have had a beginning, yet shall have no end; As Spirits, Angels good or bad, and the souls of men: yea, the bodies of men, though they are subject to, and are cut off by death, yet they shall return again; and having been sown in corruption, shall be raised in incorruption; and be clothed with immortality, which is a piece of Eternity.

Thirdly, There is a Being, which is without beginning, and without ending; and that is Gods Being only, or the Being of God; who thus expressed himself to Moses, I am, and I am that I am; (Exod. 3.14.) That word takes in all Time, past, present, and to come; yea, past, present, and to come, are all one in Gods Being (Psal. 90.1.) Thou hast been our habitation, from generation to generation: That is, ⟨p. 50⟩We thy people, have always, or in all revolutions of time, dwelt or sheltered our selves in thee: and then at the second verse, they confess not only their being in him throughout all generations, but his most blessed Being before all generations; Before Mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the Earth, and the World; even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. The first Being is an eternal Being, and therefore the Prophet saith (