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1. THe Will of God there∣fore is belonging vnto his Substance. And if aught be newly risen vp in Gods Sub∣stance, which was not there before; then cannot that Sub∣stance bee truely sayd to bee Eternall. Againe, if the Will of God had meant from eter∣nity that there should bee a Creation, why also was not that Creation from all eterni∣ty? They that prate thus, doe not yet vnderstand thee, (O
thou Wisedome of God, thou light of our Soules) they vnderstand not yet how these things bee made: which by thee, and in thee are made: yea they striue to rellish eternall things, though their heart bee flicke∣ring hitherto betweene the motions of things partly pas∣sed, and partly to come, and bee very vncertayne hi∣therto.
2. Who is able to hold it hard to, and so to fixe it, that it may be settled a while, and a little catch at a beame of light, from that euer-fixed eternity, and to compare it with the Times which are ne∣uer fixed, that it may thereby perceiue how there is no comparison betweene them: and how that a long time can¦not be made long, but out of a many motions still passing on wards, which cannot at the
same instant be drawne all to∣gether: and that all this while in the eternall nothing is flit∣ting, but all at once present; whereas no time is all at once present: and that he may per∣ceiue all time passed, to be dri∣uen away by time to come; and all time to come, to follow vpon the passed: and that all both passed and to come, is made vp, and flows out of that which is alwayes present? Who now shall so hold fast this heart of man, that it may stay, and see, howthat Eternity euer still-standing, giues the word of commaund to the times passed or to come, it selfe being neyther passed nor to come? Is this hand of mine able peraduenture to make stay of this heart? or is the hand of my mouth by any perswasions able to bring about so impor∣tant a businesse?