their misconceit of him, so it happens to them, they imagine him to be farre distant from them, and his helpe and succour in their distresse comes slowly to them, as if it had too farre to goe.CHAP. 6.Of Eternity, or of that branch of absolute infinity, whereof successive duration or the imaginary infinity of time, is the modell.1 WHatsoever hath beene, or right∣ly may be conceived of divine immensity, will in proportion as well suit unto eternity. And unto this Divine Attribute is that of Tertullian as applyable: [Ante omnia Deus erat solus, & erat sibi tempus, mun∣dus, & omnia:] Before all things were, God was, and he was unto himselfe time, the world, and all things else. We cannot properly say, He was in time be∣fore he made the world. For as Saint Augustine acutely collects, if he which alwayes is, and was, and is to come, had alwayes beene in time; hee could not have beene before all times, nor could he be, as we beleeve he is, as truly before all times future, as before all times past. His eternity then, is the in∣exhaustible fountain or infinite Ocean, from which time or duration successive (in what finite substan∣ces soever they bee seated,) with all their severall branches or appurtenances, doe perpetually flow; and unto eternity, they have if not the same propor∣tion, 0