Religio medici : with observations upon Religio medici occasionally written by Sir Kenelm Digby / by Sir Thomas Browne.

  • Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Date:
1898
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    nor the other, it puts my reason to St. Paul's sandtuary: my philosophy dares not say the angels can do it. God hath not made a creature that can comprehend him ; 'tis a privilege of his own nature: I am that I am was his own definition unto Moses; and 'twas a short one to confound mortality, that durst question God, or ask him what he was. Indeed, he only is ; all others have and shall be ; but, in eternity, there is no distinction of tenses; and therefore that terrible term, predestination, which hath troubled so many weak heads to conceive, and the wisest to explain, is in resped; to God no prescious determination of our estates to come, but a definitive blast of his will already fulfilled, and at the instant that he first decreed it; for, to his eternity, which is indivisible, and alto- gether, the last trump is already sounded, the reprobates in the flame, and the blessed in Abraham's bosom. St. Peter speaks modestly, when he saith, a thousand years to God are but as one day; for, to speak like a philo- sopher, those continued instances of time, which flow into a thousand years, make not to him one moment. What to us is to come, to his eternity is present; his whole duration being but one permanent point, without succession, parts, flux, or division. Sect. xii.—There is no attribute that adds