The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

For the explanation of this description, divers things are to be noted:

For the explanation of this description, diuers things are to be noted:

First, that God is wholly without the measures of time: though he be eternal yet he is not temporary: there is a great ¹difference between eternity and time: for eternity excludes time: he saw that, that said, time was the moveable Image of eternity: and he that said, time was the Idol or Image of eternity: and so he that said, time was the flax of eternity. Now when we say that time is removed from God, we mean from his essence, not from his works: fitly the Prophet Isaiah saith, that God inhabits eternity, Isaiah 57. 19. God dwells in eternity but yet in time he is pleased as it were to come out of those habitations of eternity to show himself abroad in time by his effects or workings: and for the manifestation of himself, ²he made times or the worlds, and is called King of Ages, Heb. 1. 12. 1. Tim. 1. 17.

First, that God is wholy without the measures of time: though he be eternall yet he is not temporarie: there is a great ¹difference betweene eternity and time: for eternity excludes time: he saw that, that said, time was the moueable Image of eternity: and he that said, time was the Idoll or Image of eternity: and so he that said, time was the flax of eternity. Now when we say that time is remoued from God, we meane from his essence, not from his workes: fitly the Prophet Esay saith, that God inhabits eternity, Esay 57. 19. God dwells in eternity but yet in time hee is pleased as it were to come out of those habitations of eternity to shew himselfe abroad in time by his effects or workings: and for the manifestation of himselfe,