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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.
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.
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. Psal. 93.2.
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 parte ante, and puzleth 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. Psal. 93.2.
2. God hath no succession in his Duration: He dwelleth in one indivisible point of eternity; He is what he is in one infinite moment of being: His duration knoweth nothing of former or latter, past or to come: His Essence is not bounded by those Hedges, but he enjoyeth his whole eternity every moment. ⟨p. 35⟩