“Whatsoever number of millions of millions of years we can imagine before the creation of the world, yet God was infinitely before those; he is therefore called the ‘Ancient of Days’ (Dan 7:9), as being before all days and time and eminently containing in himself all times and ages. . . . All created things are new and fresh, but no creature can find out any beginning of God: it is impossible there should be any beginning of him.”—Stephen Charnock