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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
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and after that, he made him a great Palace, which is spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, and how he ordered the people of the captivity. Moreover, Berosus saith, that afterward he was strucken with madness, and Evanuit, he vanished (for that is his word) he departed from amongst men. (Indeed one Annius, a Monk, hath put forth some books under the name of Megasthenes, but they are but supposititious.) So likewise, of Sennacherib and Salmanasars war, and of the building of Solomons Temple, they are recorded in the Annals of the Tyrians. This is related by ⟨p. 55⟩those that are neither Jews nor Christians; and these testimonies are fetched from those that are our enemies, which are more fit for the Press, than for the Pulpit, and to be written, than delivered in a popular congregation.
and after that, hee made him a great Palace, which is spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, and how he ordered the people of the captivitie. Moreover, Berosus saith, that afterward hee was strucken with madnesse, and Evanuit, he vanished (for that is his word) he departed from amongst men. (Indeed one Annius, a Monke, hath put forth some books under the name of Megasthenes, but they are but supposititious.) So likewise, of Senacherib and Salmanasars warre, and of the building of Salomons Temple, they are recorded in the Annals of the Tyrians. This is related by ⟨p. 55⟩those that are neither Iewes nor Christians; and these testimonies are fetched from those that are our enemies, which are more fit for the Presse, than for the Pulpit, and to be written, than delivered in a popular congregation.
I will add to this but this one; consider the exact Chronology, which is found in all the Scriptures,1 and the agreement of them with the Heathen Histories.