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Conrad Vorstius contradicts this doctrine in Notes on Disputation III On God p.226, contending that the common opinion of eternity existing all at once is false.For that reason we hand down certain foundations and rules here.
1.God's eternity is not an accident, but God's substance — for it is in reality nothing other than God's duration, and duration nothing other than persevering existence.2.God's eternity is indivisible and entirely simultaneous, and has no parts succeeding one another.3.God's eternity, being indivisible, necessarily exists with all differences of times — not that all parts of time exist together among themselves, but that each part of time, while it is in act, exists with eternity.
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CONTRADICIT huic doctrinae CONR. VORSTIUS Notis ad disp. III. de Deo p.226, vulgarem sententiam de aeternitate tota simul existente falsam esse contendens. Quapropter fundamenta et regulas quasdam hic trademus. 1. Aeternitas Dei non est accidens, sed substantia Dei — est enim reipsa nihil aliud quam duratio Dei, et duratio nihil aliud quam existentia durans. 2. Aeternitas Dei est indivisibilis et tota simul, neque habet partes sibi invicem succedentes. 3. Aeternitas Dei, cum sit indivisibilis, necessario existit cum omnibus temporum differentiis — non quod omnes partes temporis simul inter se existant, sed quod singulae partes temporis dum actu sunt existunt cum aeternitate.