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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.
Now, as there are the Jewels, and they are to be discerned and differenced, but all lies in the skill. So is it in the things that are revealed by God, and by natural reason, to know which are of God, which not; there are the things, and they are to be seen, yea, the things themselves have characters, by which they may be discerned; but let two men look upon them, one believes, and the other doth not; one man ⟨p. 48⟩goes no further than reason, but the other doth; the reason is, because one is helped from above, and the other is not, he wants that light, that habit of skill which another hath.
Now, as there are the Iewels, and they are to be discerned and differenced, but all lyes in the skill. So is it in the things that are revealed by God, and by naturall reason, to know which are of God, which not; there are the things, and they are to be seene, yea, the things themselves have characters, by which they may bee discerned; but let two men looke upon them, one beleeves, and the other doth not; one man ⟨p. 48⟩goes no further than reason, but the other doth; the reason is, because one is helped from above, and the other is not, he wants that light, that habit of skill which another hath.
Now, this being premised in general; let us see how faith gathers, that the Scriptures are true, and that all that is in them is true; and consequently, that there is a God that made the world.1 It gathers it by these three heads:
Now, this being premised in generall; let us see how faith gathers, that the Scriptures are true, and that all that is in them is true; and consequently, that there is a God that made the world.1