Book,  Chapter

 1   Read        |           known what I think of the eternal and unalterable nature of
 2      I,  II   |           God, who has the power of eternal life and death, requires
 3      I,  II   |          nothing from the moral and eternal obligation which these rules
 4     II,  XIV  |            is neither boundless nor eternal. If it be objected to me
 5     II,  XIV  |           that the world is neither eternal nor infinite; I answer,
 6     II,  XIV  |             eternity, as the future eternal duration of our souls, as
 7     II,  XV   |             yet we can conceive the eternal duration of the Almighty
 8     II,  XVII |             whose duration has been eternal. And as to this, I say,
 9     II,  XVII |       necessarily come to Something eternal. But having spoke of this
10     II,  XVII |           own argument, the idea of eternal, a parte ante, or of a duration
11     II,  XVII |        duration, when applied to an eternal Being, and to a finite;
12     II,  XVII |             17. No complete idea of eternal being. I think it unavoidable
13     II,  XVII |            to have the notion of an eternal, wise Being, who had no
14     II,  XVII |             necessary to admit some Eternal Being, and so to consider
15     II,  XVII |            that the world should be eternal, because we have an idea
16     II,  XVII |            infinite duration by his eternal existence, must be allowed
17     II,  XXI  |             loose from the infinite eternal joys of heaven, once proposed
18     II,  XXI  |       actions to any other end: the eternal condition of a future state
19     II,  XXI  |             there may be a state of eternal durable joys after this
20     II,  XXI  |             which they neglect that eternal state. But yet, in full
21     II,  XXI  |           that follows from it. The eternal law and nature of things
22     II,  XXI  |            honour, and immortality, eternal life; but unto every soul
23     II,  XXI  |             life can show, when the eternal state is considered but
24     II,  XXIII|             so frame the idea of an eternal being. The degrees or extent
25     II,  XXIII|        happiness, &c., infinite and eternal: which are all distinct
26     II,  XXVII|           God is without beginning, eternal, unalterable, and everywhere,
27    III,  VI   |         have the complex idea of an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent,
28     IV,  III  | contradiction in it, that the first Eternal thinking Being, or Omnipotent
29     IV,  III  |             thought) should be that Eternal first-thinking Being. What
30     IV,  III  |          Father of all spirits, the eternal independent Author of them,
31     IV,  III  |              to abstract ideas) are eternal; and are to be found out
32     IV,  IV   |         outward parts, as to affirm eternal life due to it, or a necessary
33     IV,  IV   |      carries with it the hope of an eternal duration, than the fashion
34     IV,  X    |         something else.~4. And that eternal Being must be most powerful.
35     IV,  X    |          from the same source. This eternal source, then, of all being
36     IV,  X    |           of all power; and so this eternal Being must be also the most
37     IV,  X    |            any knowledge, when that eternal being was void of all understanding;
38     IV,  X    |             truth,—That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most
39     IV,  X    |            ought to ascribe to this eternal Being. If, nevertheless,
40     IV,  X    |             that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.” Though
41     IV,  X    |             there must be something eternal, let us see what sort of
42     IV,  X    |        suppose any parcel of matter eternal, great or small, we shall
43     IV,  X    |            next pebble we meet with eternal, closely united, and the
44     IV,  X    |           But let us suppose motion eternal too: yet matter, incogitative
45     IV,  X    |            suppose nothing first or eternal, matter can never begin
46     IV,  X    |         bare matter without motion, eternal, motion can never begin
47     IV,  X    |         matter and motion first, or eternal, thought can never begin
48     IV,  X    |       therefore, if matter were the eternal first cogitative being,
49     IV,  X    |              there would not be one eternal, infinite, cogitative being,
50     IV,  X    |           but an infinite number of eternal, finite, cogitative beings,
51     IV,  X    |             whatsoever is the first eternal being must necessarily be
52     IV,  X    |             follows, that the first eternal being cannot be matter.~
53     IV,  X    |        Therefore, there has been an eternal cogitative Being. If, therefore,
54     IV,  X    |           12. The attributes of the eternal cogitative Being. Though
55     IV,  X    |           necessary existence of an eternal Mind does sufficiently lead
56     IV,  X    |         against it.~13. Whether the eternal Mind may he also material
57     IV,  X    |           it, that there must be an eternal Being, and that Being must
58     IV,  X    |             God. For if there be an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent
59     IV,  X    |     demonstration, that there is an eternal knowing Being, men, devoted
60     IV,  X    |            demonstration whereby an eternal knowing Being was proved
61     IV,  X    |             deny a God, that is, an eternal cogitative Being: whereby
62     IV,  X    |           can be, in their opinion, eternal matter, without any eternal
63     IV,  X    |         eternal matter, without any eternal cogitative Being, they manifestly
64     IV,  X    |       establish the necessity of an eternal Spirit, but not of matter;
65     IV,  X    |             proved already, that an eternal cogitative Being is unavoidably
66     IV,  X    |        matter may be separated, the eternal existence of matter will
67     IV,  X    |            will not follow from the eternal existence of a cogitative
68     IV,  X    |    themselves, or others, that this eternal thinking Being is material.~
69     IV,  X    |         then there would be as many eternal thinking beings as there
70     IV,  X    |             of matter must be alone eternal or not. If this alone be
71     IV,  X    |            or not. If this alone be eternal, then this alone, by its
72     IV,  X    |           rest of matter is equally eternal as that thinking atom, it
73     IV,  X    |           For to suppose all matter eternal, and yet one small particle
74     IV,  X    |     peculiar atom alone can be this eternal thinking being; nor all
75     IV,  X    |     together, that is this thinking eternal Being. This is that which,
76     IV,  X    |           other: for to suppose the eternal thinking Being to be nothing
77     IV,  X    |        wisdom and knowledge of that eternal Being only to the juxta-position
78     IV,  X    |       Matter not co-eternal with an eternal Mind. Secondly, Others would
79     IV,  X    |             would have Matter to be eternal, notwithstanding that they
80     IV,  X    |  notwithstanding that they allow an eternal, cogitative, immaterial
81     IV,  X    |              Matter must be allowed eternal: Why? because you cannot
82     IV,  X    |             not also think yourself eternal? You will answer, perhaps,
83     IV,  X    |           if it did, then it is not eternal: but it began to be put
84     IV,  X    |           do with one who allows an eternal, immaterial, thinking Being,
85     IV,  X    |        would have unthinking Matter eternal too;) therefore, when did
86     IV,  X    |             all things that are not eternal must be,) why also can you
87     IV,  X    |         exist, by the power of that eternal first Being: but to give
88     IV,  X    |   comprehend the operations of that eternal infinite Mind, who made
89     IV,  XI   |           spiritual beings, but the Eternal God. We have ground from
90     IV,  XI   |   propositions are therefore called eternal truths, not because they
91     IV,  XI   |        truths, not because they are eternal propositions actually formed,
92     IV,  XI   |             once true must needs be eternal verities.  ~
93     IV,  XII  |           i.e. the condition of our eternal estate. Hence I think I
94     IV,  XIII |        depending on another, who is eternal, omnipotent, perfectly wise
95     IV,  XVIII|           of truth, coming from the eternal fountain of all knowledge.
96     IV,  XIX  |             revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain