(seq. 109)

sence, a day (in Scripture) is said to be to him as a thousand
yeers, & a thousand yeers as a day. This is an Attribute in-
communicable, no second being can lay claim to it.
Eternity as it is ascribed to the creature, is an imro-
per kind of phrase, in which only one properly of Gods E-
ternity is considered. The creature's Eternity (or as
some for distincton call it, E[???]ernity, hath 1. a be-
ginning, 2. succession, but, 3. it hath so ending:
Hence some define it, A succeeding now. A now, they
call it, because of its endless duration, in which respect,
it is distinguished from time properly so called, in which
there is, as a beginnig & succession, so an end; in respect
of which endlesse duration also, in a sence, a 1000 yeers
shall be as a day, because the sinners torments shall bee
no never an end after a thousand yeers, then the first
day. A succeeding now we call it, because, as it began,
for it hath its succession: it hath a duration, a length
of time, in which the sinner still makes progresse in his
miseryes; which is a sore aggravation of his infelicity, &
shall make his torments appeare long & tiresome: for
that it is (as it were) a middle state between time & eter-
nity; it hath a relation to time, by succession, which [shall?]
weary out the sinner under his torment, a relation also
to eternity, in its perpetuity, which shall fill ye sinner
with endlesse despaire.

2. How God shall enable the sinner to undergo eternall torments

A. In [sinne?], God shall by his Almighty power, fit & prepare ye
sinner for such a condition: Rom. 9.22. fitted to destruction:
wee may consider this in a few things.

1. The soule by its natural constitution is immortal, &, being
of a spiritual nature, dyes not: it needs not elements, or
elementary sustenance to preserve its being to it: it lives
without food, & raiment, & such supplyes as are requisite
to [the?] shoring up the life of the bodye: & hence, the
death of the soule is not a death of annhilation, but
of miserye.

2. God shall, when by his Almighty power hee shall raise
the bodyes of sinners, put into them a spiritual nature,
in many respects, 1 Cor. 15.44. among which, these are
the two principall which the bodyes of the wicked shall
then bee made to receive: viz.