7. Sometimes for so much of either as we design by measures taken from the bulk or motion of bodies.
Secondly,
sometimes the word time is used in a larger sense, and is applied to parts of that infinite duration, not that were
really distinguished and measured out by this real existence, and periodical motions of bodies, that were appointed
from the beginning to be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and are accordingly our measures of
time; but such other portions too of that infinite uniform duration, which we upon any occasion do suppose equal
to certain lengths of measured time; and so consider them as bounded and determined. For, if we should suppose
the creation, or fall of the angels, was at the beginning of the Julian period, we should speak properly enough, and
should be understood if we said, it is a longer time since the creation of angels than the creation of the world, by
7640 years: whereby we would mark out so much of that undistinguished duration as we suppose equal to, and
would have admitted, 7640 annual revolutions of the sun, moving at the rate it now does. And thus likewise we
sometimes speak of place, distance, or bulk, in the great inane, beyond the confines of the world, when we
consider so much of that space as is equal to, or capable to receive, a body of any assigned dimensions, as a cubic
foot; or do suppose a point in it, at such a certain distance from any part of the universe.
