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Life eternalLife eternall
Life eternal or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes Delivered in XVIII. sermons. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston, D. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.Life eternall or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes Delivered in XVIII. sermons. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, D. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inne.
London: printed by Richard, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE SECOND SERMON.
HEBREWS 11.6. He that cometh to God, must believe that God is, &c.
HEBREWES 11.6. He that commeth to God, must beleeve that GOd is, &c.
Before we come to the second sort of arguments to prove this principle, that GOD is, by faith, we think it necessary to answer some objections of Atheism, which may arise and trouble the hearts of men.
BEfore we come to the second sort of arguments to prove this principle, that GOD is, by faith, we thinke it necessarie to answer some objections of Atheisme, which may arise and trouble the hearts of men.
Object. 1 Men are ready to say that, which you shall find, in 2 Pet. 3.4.1 All things have continued alike since the creation. That is, when men look upon the condition of things, they see the Sun rise, and set again, and see the rivers run in a circle ⟨p. 31⟩