[ 3] The third thing is the difference betweene the eternitie of God, and the duration of all creatures, which consists in these particulars:
[ 1] They, even the best of them, have but an halfe eternitie, they are not from everlasting, though they are to everlasting.
[ 2] That eternall duration that they have, is not intrinsecall to them, it is dependent, they receive it from another.
[ 3] They cannot communicate it to another, nor extend it beyond themselves; the Angels, though they bee eternall, yet they cannot make other things to be eternall; God onely can doe this.
[ 4] All the acts of the creatures, all their pleasures and thoughts, and whatsoever is in them doe ad∣mit a succession, a continuall flux and motion; but in God it is not so; he is as a rocke in the wa∣ter that stands fast though the waves move about it; so is it with God: and though the creatures ad∣mit of a continuall flux and succession about him, as the waves doe; yet there is none in him. And these are the differences betweene the eternity of God, and the duration of all the creatures. Now followes the fourth thing.
[ 4] The consectaries that flow from hence, they are these two:
If this be the eternity of God, then to him all time, that is to come, is, as it were, past, Psal. 90.4. A thousand yeares in his sight are but as yester∣day, when it is past: that is, a thousand yeares that are to come, thay are to him as past; they are no∣thing to him. And againe, a thousand yeeres that