One must spend an eternity wrapped in soundless night, to understand the full horror of being without it.

Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities.

why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

The Mu'tazilites had advocated man's free will; had given prominence to justice and holiness in their conception of God, had denied distinct qualities in God and the eternity of God's Word; had accepted a place for the neutral between Paradise and Hell; and for some time the favour of the powers in authority seemed to assure the victory of their system.

Our hearts are dull and hard and light, God forgive us; and we forget continually what an earnest, awful world we live ina whole eternity waiting for us to be born, and a whole eternity waiting to see what we shall do now we are born.

And with respect to those learned men that apply the text to God, I remember not that this 'abiding for ever' is used to express God's eternity in himself.

And it seemed to her that she had been there on that form an eternity.

In the first of these places also, "eternal life" does not necessarily mean eternity of bliss, but merely the eternity of the state, whether in happiness or in misery, to ensue upon the resurrection; which is probably the sense of "the life everlasting," in the Apostles' Creed.

Mankind looks up to heaven, and while measuring eternity with the rule of the passing moment, sometimes despairs of the future, and believes the sun of Freedom sunk for ever!

I hope to pass eternity with her.

"How can anybody expect us to waste eternity with recreations which are only fitted to waste time?" they demanded.

Few men, and no women at all, can be happy in a life of their own choosing if they are assured by persons in daily intercourse with thempersons whom they respect and lovethat in living that life they will assuredly be laying up for themselves an eternity of damnation.

" An impressive silence followed these words, a silence that to the youth seemed to suggest eternity.

He has promised him eternity with the intention that he should not be alone.

St. Austin in his sixth book of the Trinity takes notice of a common argument used by the orthodox fathers against the Arians, to prove the co-eternity of the Son with the Father, that if the Son be the Wisdom and Power of God, as St. Paul teaches (1 'Cor'. i.) and God was never without his Wisdom and Power, the Son must he co-eternal with the Father.

"Then I tell you what, Mrs. Hamilton," the old veteran said, "Old Time has been playing tricks with me, and drawing me much nearer eternity than I at all imagined myself, or else he has stopped with me and gone on with you.

Lord, keep my heart fixed, on the last, last awful moment that I may have to breathe; grant that it may be breathed out in the bosom of my adorable Saviour; all sting of death taken away, my robes washed in his blood, and my spirit purified and ready to be united to those beloved ones who are already enjoying a blissful eternity with thee!

The thought of entering eternity without a change of heart filled her with alarm.

And will you give your soule, Which heaven in its creation had designd A bride to faire eternity of blisse, By vild procurement of hells bawd, despaire, To prostitution of unnaturall death

Then shall the distant past be present still, The future, ere it comes, thy vision fill Each single moment touch eternity.

Could he put off his body with his little coat, he had got eternity without a burden, and exchanged but one heaven for another.

My misery is then a Poet sure, For time has given it an Eternity.

But our friends are of our own choosing, and we do not sufficiently consider that upon that choice may hang our eternity.

Who would wish to hazard a whole eternity upon one stake?

Averroes held the eternity of matter and denied the immortality of the soul; his general view may be described as pantheism.