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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.
2 But yet, these wheels have eyes in them, that is, though we see not the reason of things in them, yet they have eyes in them, they have something to be discerned; the speech is a metaphor, and a metonymy too, showing that there is something in their events, that may show the reason of their Turning, if we could discern it, but it is oft hidden from us.
2 But yet, these wheeles have eyes in them, that is, though we see not the reason of things in them, yet they have eyes in them, they have something to be discerned; the speech is a metaphor, and a metonymie too, shewing that there is something in their events, that may shew the reason of their Turning, if we could discerne it, but it is oft hidden from us.
3 And these Wheels are stirred, but as the beasts stir them; that is, there is nothing done here below, but they are done by the instruments of God, namely, the Angels.
3 And these Wheeles are stirred, but as the beasts stirre them; that is, there is nothing done here below, but they are done by the instruments of God, namely, the Angels.
4 And these Angels, first, have faces like men, that is, the wisdom of men; and on the other side, secondly, a face like a Lion, for their strength; thirdly, there is service, and laboriousness in them, as in Oxen: fourthly, there is swiftness in them, as in Eagles; and this is meant of the Angels, that order and guide the course of things, and change them, as we see continually.
4 And these Angels, first, have faces like men, that is, the wisdome of men; and on the other side, secondly, a face like a Lion, for their strength; thirdly, there is service, and laboriousnesse in them, as in Oxen: fourthly, there is swiftnesse in them, as in Eagles; and this is meant of the Angels, that order and guide the course of things, and change them, as we see continually.