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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.
From the greatness of Gods Majesty, and the immensity of his works,1 and that is the reason of the words here annexed; there is none like him:2 as in verse 5. of this Chapter you shall see ⟨p. 77⟩it more plainly. So, Among the gods, 3there is none like to thee, O Lord, neither are there any works like thy works. Where you see that they are both put together; there is none like to him for the greatness of his Majesty, nor for the immensity of his works. More particularly, first, in regard of the greatness of his Majesty, there is none like him; Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 4and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing; and Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering; All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than no thing, and vanity: that is, let a man look on the greatness of God, and compare him with all the things that are in the world, and you shall find a great disproportion between them; they are but as the drop of the bucket. A bucket, of it self, holds but little water, but yet that is for some use; but the drops that fall from the bucket, when it cometh out of the Well, they are so small, as we make no account of them; and yet all the world is not so much to the Lord, as these small drops. And if that similitude will not serve, there is another; They are as the dust of the balance: if it were but as the dust of the earth, it were but small, but as for the dust of the balance, it is so small, that it cannot weigh the balance this way, or that way; and yet the whole world is not so much to the Lord, as the dust of the balance.
From the greatnesse of Gods Majesty, and the immensitie of his workes,1 and that is the reason of the words here annexed; there is none like him: