III.
For this word ETERNALL, you will soon see, in the most obvious accep∣tion of it, denotes the perpetuity and e∣verlasting duration of this uninterrupted and unintermitted LIFE, or state of highest Happiness. If we should suppose it to be but of a short continuance, yet such is the pleasure of it, I have shewn you, so satisfying are its joys, that any man of sense would chuse rather to spend seventy or eighty years there, then to pass them in this miserable world. Nay, one day of that life is better then a thousand of ours: and much rather should we wish to have the meanest place in those celestiall man∣sions, then the greatest preferments on this Earth. But besides that it is so transcen∣dently sweet and delicious, you must now consider, that this LIFE knows no term nor period; but lasts as long as him that is the Authour of it. He never began