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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.
THE FIFTH SERMON.
ISAI. 46.9. Remember the former things of old; for I am GOD, and there is none else; I am GOD, and there is none like me.
ISAI. 46.9. Remember the former things of old; for I am GOD, and there is none else; I am GOD, and there is none like mee.
The third thing which remains,1 is this, that there is no other GOD; and it is an argument which is often used in Scripture, to prove that the Lord is God, because there is none besides him;2 for so you are to understand it: I am GOD; because there is no ⟨p. 76⟩other; this particle is so used many times, Isaiah 45.22.3 I am GOD, and there is none else, there is none beside me; and this shows the falseness of all other gods, and all other religions; and the argument stands thus; That if you look to all former times, you shall see that there was never any other God, or any other religion but this, which we profess. There are two arguments set down in the Text:
THe third thing which remains,1 is this, that there is no other GOD; and it is an argument which is often used in Scripture, to prove that the Lord is God, because there is none besides him;