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MErchants and Shop-keepers,* 1.1 to procure a better sale, and greater credit to their severall Stuffs, call them Sempiternum, Perpetuana, Durance, &c. but how soon doth the moth fret them, and they are gon? nothing left but the bare name. But God, he is the true eternall Beeing, All Creatures have a lasting, Angels have an outlasting, but god hath an everlasting Beeing; He onely is Alpha and Omega,
before the beginning, and beyond all ending, from everlasting to everlasting, the King,* 1.2 eternall, immortall, &c.
T. Taylor Ser. at S. Mary Alderm. Lond. 1626.
1 Tim. 1. 17.