In this issue, we continue a sermon by Samuel Davies. In the previous part of this sermon, Mr. Davies showed that, in respect to their intrinsic value , there is a great disparity between things unseen and things seen. Before we illustrate these instances of disparity, let us take a view of time and eternity in themselves, and as compared to one another.
Time is the duration of creatures in the present state.
But this we know, that the duration of the world itself is as nothing in comparison of eternity. All beside is eternity. Eternity with respect to God is a duration without beginning as well as without end. Eternity, as it is the attribute of human nature, is a duration that had a beginning but shall never have an end. Millions of millions of years, as many years as there are sands on the sea- shore, or particles of dust in the globe of the earth, and these multiplied to the highest reach of number, all these are nothing to eternity.