Disquisitions On Several Subjects
Disquisitions On Several Subjects
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to this it may be replied with equal con- cifenefs and truth, that in facl: no fuch C 7i ] fuch ages ever did or could pafs before it was created; nor was it created in any time at all ; for nei- ther the eflence or actions of God have the moft diftant relation to time ; he has been pleafed in his infinite wifdom to bellow on fome parts of his creation a temporal mode of exiftence, and from this alone time derives its origin : to iuppofe time antecedent to temporal exiftence, is to fuppofe effe...cts to precede their caufes; and not lefs abfurd, than to imagine, that there could be perception before fenfitive Beings, or thought before intelli- gent Beings exifted. This very queftion proves the abfurd ity of connecting time and eternity toge- ther j for if God's power of creating F -i is t 7' ] is co&val with his exiftence, that exiftence eternal, and that eternity only time extended ; this evident contradiction follows, that God, tho' always equally able, yet in fact never could create any thing fo foon, but that he might have created it fooner: that is in other words, that he never could create any thing as foon as he could.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
to this it may be replied with equal con- cifenefs and truth, that in facl: no fuch C 7i ] fuch ages ever did or could pafs before it was created; nor was it created in any time at all ; for nei- ther the eflence or actions of God have the moft diftant relation to time ; he has been pleafed in his infinite wifdom to bellow on fome parts of his creation a temporal mode of exiftence, and from this alone time derives its origin : to iuppofe time antecedent to temporal exiftence, is to fuppofe effe...cts to precede their caufes; and not lefs abfurd, than to imagine, that there could be perception before fenfitive Beings, or thought before intelli- gent Beings exifted. This very queftion proves the abfurd ity of connecting time and eternity toge- ther j for if God's power of creating F -i is t 7' ] is co&val with his exiftence, that exiftence eternal, and that eternity only time extended ; this evident contradiction follows, that God, tho' always equally able, yet in fact never could create any thing fo foon, but that he might have created it fooner: that is in other words, that he never could create any thing as foon as he could.
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