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  • Link and yonder all before us lie deserts of vast eternitie

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  • Astronomie doe very well knowe, which people if they haue the notice of their eternitie by the comfortable light of the Gospel, then are they blessed and of all nations most blessed.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Astronomie doe very well knowe, which people if they haue the notice of their eternitie by the comfortable light of the Gospel, then are they blessed and of all nations most blessed.

    The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

  • The onely God omnipotent before all eternitie, his will be done without ende: the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost we glorifie in

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Astronomie doe very well knowe, which people if they haue the notice of their eternitie by the comfortable light of the Gospel, then are they blessed and of all nations most blessed.

    The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

  • Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, dreamed of the eternitie of the world.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • First because he is euen & smooth, without any angle, or interruption, most voluble and apt to turne, and to continue motion, which is the author of life: he conteyneth in him the commodious description of euery other figure, & for his ample capacitie doth resemble the world or uniuers, & for his indefiniteness hauing no speciall place of beginning nor end, beareth a similitude with God and eternitie.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • = To be ... eternitie: = to be His image is to do the deeds that confer immortality, which, owing to the existence of death, consists only in doing the deeds that befit eternal life.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • The most and the least is ours, if we compare it with eternitie, or equal it to the lasting of mountains, rivers, stars, and trees, or any other living creature, is not lesse ridiculous.

    That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

  • [648] Be quhilk our Confessioun we condemne the damnable and pestilent heresies of Arius, Marcion, Eutyches, Nestorius, and sik uthers, as either did denie the eternitie of his God-head, or the veritie of his humaine nature, or confounded them, or zit devided them. est justum illud semen Davidis, Angelus ille magni consilii.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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