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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.
It is profitable to converse with faithful men:1 As it is said of Barnabas, 2he was a man full of faith; therefore it is said, he converted many: It is not in vain, that phrase of the Scripture; he was a man full of faith, and therefore many were added to the Lord. And you shall find it by experience, when you converse with worldly men; ⟨p. 70⟩they will be ready, on every occasion, to attribute the event of things to natural causes, but the godly, they ascribe it to God. Now good words strengthen our faith, but the evil words of natural men, they corrupt good manners. And not only the words of the godly work so, but the very manner of the delivery of it, is emphatical, for they do believe it themselves: now if a man deliver an history that he believes, he will deliver it in such a manner, that he will make others believe it also: Act. 14.1.3 They so spake, that a great multitude of the Jews believed; that is, in such a manner, that many were turned to the faith. Junius professeth in his life, that the very first thing that turned him from his Atheism, was the talking with a country-man of his not far from Florence, and his manner of expressing himself. The next was the majesty of the Scripture, which he observed in Joh. 1. but the other was the beginning of it.
It is profitable to converse with faithfull men:1 As it is said of Barnabas, 2hee was a man full of faith; therefore it is said, he converted many: It is not in vaine, that phrase of the Scripture; hee was a man full of faith, and therefore many were added to the Lord. And you shall finde it by experience, when you converse with worldly men; ⟨p. 70⟩