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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.
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.
There is one reason more remains, & that is from the testimony of the Church; doubtless, it is an argument of great strength;1 That so many generations since CHRISTS time, and before, have, from hand to hand, delivered it unto us, and that so many holy men, as the Martyrs were, and, as the Fathers were, when they lived, that these all gave testimony to this Scripture in all ages.
THere is one reason more remains, & that is from the testimony of the Church; doubtlesse, it is an argument of great strength;1 That so many generations since CHRISTS time, and before, have, from hand to hand, delivered it unto us, and that so many holy men, as the Martyrs were, and, as the Fathers were, when they lived, that these all gave testimony to this Scripture in all ages.
- 1The fourth argument, from the testimony of the Church.
But yet we will add something to it, because the Papists have abused this, and say, they would have the truth of the Scriptures to depend upon the authority of the Church, and not so much upon the testimony it hath received from all ages and generations; they would have it to be such a testimony as the present Church gives of it; because, say they, that can err in nothing; therefore not in this: and therefore they say, This is the Bible, and the very Dictate of the Pope, in cathedrâ, with his Council (some say,) makes it so, and you must receive it for Scripture, upon this ground, without any further inquiry. But, with us, who do not receive that conclusion, that the Church cannot err; it is out of question, that the Scripture doth not depend on the authority of the Church.