A Body of Practical Divinity

'Tis only proper to God to be Eternal, without Beginning. He is Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, Rev. 1.8. No Creature can write it self Alpha, that is only a Flower of the Crown of Heaven, Exod. 3.14. I am that I am; viz. he who Exists from and to Eternity.

Use 1. Here is Thunder and Lightning to the Wicked; God is Eternal, therefore the Torments of the Wicked are Eternal. God lives for ever, and as long as God lives, he will be punishing the damned.—This methinks, should be as ⟨p. 34⟩that Hand-writing on the Wall, Dan. 5.5. it should make their joints to be loosed, &c. The sinner takes liberty to sin, he breaks God's Laws, like a Wild beast that breaks over the Hedge, and leaps into forbidden Pasture: he sins [Greek or Hebrew], with greediness, Eph. 4.19. as if he thought he could not sin fast enough. But remember, this is one of God's Names, Eternal, and as long as God is Eternal, he hath time enough to reckon with all his Enemies. To make Sinners tremble, let them think of these three things: The Torments of the the Damned are without Intermission, without Mixture, and Eternal.

Use 1. Here is Thunder and Lightning to the Wicked; God is Eternal, therefore the Torments of the Wicked are Eternal. God lives for ever, and as long as God lives, he will be punishing the damned.—This methinks, should be as ⟨p. 34⟩that Hand-writing on the Wall, Dan. 5.5. it should make their joints to be loosed, &c. The sinner takes liberty to sin, he breaks God's Laws, like a Wild beast that breaks over the Hedge, and leaps into forbidden Pasture: he sins , with greediness,