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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.
So also in Esthers time, take all the wheels together, and you shall see an excellent act of Gods providence, when the Church was ready to be destroyed, when the neck was upon the block, and the sword drawn out ready to strike, and that that night the King should not sleep, but that a book must be brought, and rather that than another, and that the place should be opened, where he should find Mordecai his revealing of the treason against him, and thereupon the decree was revoked, and the Church delivered: I say, take all these together, and we shall plainly see, that in this strange administration of things, there is still a providence, and that there are eyes in the wheels, and a spirit to guide them.
So also in Esthers time, take all the wheeles together, and you shall see an excellent act of Gods providence, when the Church was ready to be destroyed, when the neck was upon the block, and the sword drawne out ready to strike, and that that night the King should not sleepe, but that a booke must be brought, and rather that than another, and that the place should be opened, where he should finde Mordecai his revealing of the treason against him, and thereupon the decree was revoked, and the Church delivered: I say, take all these together, and we shall plainly see, that in this strange administration of things, there is still a providence, and that there are eyes in the wheeles, and a spirit to guide them.
Object. 3 If there be such a God that made the Heaven and the Earth; what is the reason then, that we see things are brought to pass by natural causes? If there be a cause for such a thing, the effect doth follow; when there is no cause, then the effect doth not, as a wise man doth bring a thing to pass, but the foolish miscarry in them, we see the diligent hand maketh rich, and he that labours ⟨p. 39⟩not, hath nothing; and things that are strong prevail against those that are weak; and so God is forgotten in the world, and his wisdom and power is not seen?
Object. 3 If there be such a God that made the Heaven and the Earth; what is the reason then, that wee see things are brought to passe by naturall causes? If there be a cause for such a thing, the effect doth follow; when there is no cause, then the effect doth not, as a wise man doth bring a thing to passe, but the foolish miscarry in them, we see the diligent hand maketh rich, and hee that labours