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23. I was set up from everla∣sting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
23. My Sovereignty and Dominion is from everlasting; and hath no superiour to it: All Antiquity comes infinite∣ly short of mine; who was before the Earth it self, the common mother of all man∣kind (I. Gen. 1.)