“O ETERNITY! ETERNITY! Who can fathom it?
Mariners have their plummets to measure the depths of the sea.
But what line or plummet shall we use to fathom the depth of eternity?
O think of eternity!
Brethren, we are every day travelling to eternity.
And whether we wake or sleep, we are going our journey.
Some of us are upon the borders of eternity.
O study the shortness of life and length of eternity!”
–Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity Contained in Sermons Upon the Westminster Assembly’s Catechism (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1692/1970), 63, 65.
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