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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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Treatise › Chapter 5: God incomparable in his Being, as it is eternal, and without composition.
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CHAP. V. God incomparable in his Being, as it is eternal, and without composition.
God is an eternal Being, and none is eternal but he: Time which hath a beginning and end is competible ⟨p. 34⟩to Men, and other visible Creatures in this World. Aeriternity which hath a beginning, and no end, is competible to good and evil Angels, and to the Souls of Men; but Eternity which hath no beginning, succession or end, belongs only to God.
GOd is an eternal Being, and none is eternal but he: Time which hath a beginning and end is competible ⟨p. 34⟩to Men, and other visible Creatures in this World. Aeriternity which hath a beginning, and no end, is competible to good and evil Angels, and to the Souls of Men; but Eternity which hath no beginning, succession or end, belongs onely to God.
1. God hath no beginning: He who in the beginning created the Heavens and the Earth, could have no beginning himself, Gen. 1.1. Before the Mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the Earth and the World; from everlasting to everlasting thou art God, Psal. 90.2. God is eternal, a part ante, and puzzleth the most enlarged Understanding, to conceive his duration: Behold he is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out, Job 36.26