Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration…

William Law
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Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. ✨ William Law (1740). An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels, p.110
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