Can He be God if He can no more separate Himself from His creation in a past eternity than in the coming eternity?
"This face of the problem is insoluble in its cause.

Let us now inquire into its effects.

If a God compelled to have created the world from all eternity seems inexplicable, He is quite as unintelligible in perpetual cohesion with His work.

God, constrained to live eternally united to His creation is held down to His first position as workman.

Can you conceive of a God who shall be neither independent of nor dependent on His work?
Could He destroy that work without challenging Himself?
Ask yourself, and decide! Whether He destroys it some day, or whether He never destroys it, either way is fatal to the attributes without which God cannot exist.