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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.
Answ. It is exceeding profitable to search and examine these truths to the full, 1not to give over pondering of them, till your hearts be established in ⟨p. 68⟩the present truth.2 It is good to do with your selves, as Elijah did in the case of Baal, Why halt you between two religions, come to that disjunction, If Baal be god, follow him? So I say to you in this case; examine it to the full,3 if these principles be not true, walk according to your liberty and lusts, take no pains, but live as your nature would have you; but if they be true, then walk so, as if thou didst throughly believe them so to be; the belief of them is that which will carry us through all losses and slanders, through good report and ill report; if thou didst throughly believe them, they would make thee do any thing for God; I say, it is very profitable to come to this disjunction, and it strengthens our faith much; and this being laid, then draw the conclusion from it, that we thus here must live, and that it is here best for us to do so.
Answ. It is exceeding profitable to search and examine these truths to the ful, 1not to give over pondering of them, till your hearts be established in ⟨p. 68⟩the present truth.2 It is good to doe with your selves, as Eliah did in the case of Baal, Why halt you betweene two religions, come to that disjunction, If Baal be god, follow him? So I say to you in this case; examine it to the full,3 if these principles be not true, walke according to your liberty and lusts, take no paines, but live as your nature would have you; but if they be true, then walke so, as if thou didst throughly beleeve them so to be; the beleefe of them is that which will carry us through all losses and slanders, through good report and ill report; if thou didst throughly beleeve them, they would make thee doe any thing for God; I say, it is very profitable to come to this disjunction, and it strengthens our faith much; and this being laid, then draw the conclusion from it, that we thus here must live, and that it is here best for us to doe so.