Sunday, February 1, 2009

Section 6: Without Beginning, and without any Ending.

Book 2 Part 1 Chapter 2 Section 6 (p. 44)
Without Beginning, and without any Ending.

That this God is Eternal, without Beginning, and without End. This Proposition is warranted by the holy Apostle, Rom. 1.20. from what may be seen of God, by the Things he hath made, even his Eternal Power and Godhead. And indeed, if his Eternity be not maintained, we shall soon impeach his Godhead, and Atheism will obtrude upon us. The Psalmist doth fully declare this Truth, Psal. 90.2. "Before the Mountains were brought forth, or even thou hadst formed the Earth, or the World, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." And the same in Moses, Deut. 33.27. "The Eternal God is thy Refuge." Isa. 57.15. He is called the High and Lofty One, that inhabiteth Eternity. And again, Isa. 63.16. "Thy Name is from everlasting." Psal. 93.2. "Thou art from everlasting." Hab. 1.12. "Art not thou from Everlasting, O Lord, my God." So that we may say, all the Gods whose beginning is known, are Vanity; but this God is our God, for ever and ever. Nor need we add much in this place, partly, for that we are only giving a plain Description of Christianity, as it respects the Knowledg of God; and partly, for that we have already in some measure Evinced the Eternity of the Godhead, when we discoursed of the Unity of the Essence and Nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; otherwise we might by sundry Arguments illustrate this Truth, which yet is best defended, by the Evidence of the Scriptures alledged.

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