Sect. 9.
* 1.1Well, I will write no more of this Terme, from the beginning: I come now to the last Terme, a diebus Se∣culi, from the dayes of age; they quarrell at every thing; This (say they) cannot be spoken of eternity, for eternity hath no day••s, but is totum simul, without distinction of dayes; this hath been answer'd many times; that since the infinite excellencies of God are such, that man, with his weake and finite understanding, cannot com∣prehend them in their proper notions, he is pleased to vaile that glory with such Clouds as man may behold somewhat of him, in part, as the Apostle speak's, dark∣ly, like the Sun behind a Cloud; and in this manner he teacheth all his Attributes, which is well known, and consented to, by Divines; and in this manner he teach∣eth his eternity.* 1.2 So Psalm▪ 102.27. thou art the same, and thy yeares shall have no end; if he have years, he hath dayes, one as well as another; so likewise Iob 10.5. Are thy dayes as the dayes of man? are thy years, as mans dayes? there dayes are attributed, because man is ac∣quainted with no duration which is not successive; there∣fore God is pleased to expresse himselfe in such a man∣ner as man is capable of learning him by; whence, as it is evident in other God's glorious Attributes, so▪ in this very particular, eternity is used to be expressed by his own pen, in such a language as here, by dayes, and there∣fore may abide that sense here; for their expression of David, that his were the dayes of age, or time, which were