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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.
3 They did dye, and therefore were not gods;1 and therefore they would in one place show you a sepulchre, and in another place a temple erected to the same god, which is an extreme contradiction; yet this was acknowledged even by them that worshipped them: and as for Tully, we cannot ⟨p. 82⟩have more against him, than he himself confesseth in his Tractate, De naturâ deorum; as one saith, Re tollit deos, sed oratione reliquit; He took away their gods in deed, though not in word: and himself saith, Utinam tam facile veram religionem invenire possim, quàm falsam convincere: I would I could as well find out the truth of true religion, as the falseness of the other. All which are disputed at large by Tertullian, and Augustine De civitate Dei, and Clemens Alexandrinus, who lived in those days; which we speak the more of, because it was that, which did spread it self even over the whole world for many ages together. And as for the gods that are worshipped by the Chaldeans, and the Syrians, as the Sun and Moon, they are not worth the naming.
3 They did dye, and therefore were not gods;1 and therefore they would in one place shew you a sepulchre, and in another place a temple erected to the same god, which is an extreme contradiction; yet this was acknowledged even by them that worshipped them: and as for Tully, we cannot ⟨p. 82⟩have more against him, than he himselfe confesseth in his Tractate, De naturâ deorum; as one saith, Re tollit deos, sed oratione reliquit; He tooke away their gods in deed, though not in word: and himselfe saith, Vtinam tam facile veram religionem invenire possim, quàm falsam convincere: I would I could as well finde out the truth of true religion, as the falsenesse of the other. All which are disputed at large by Tertullian, and Augustine De civitate Dei, and Clemens Alexandrinus, who lived in those dayes; which we speak the more of, because it was that, which did spread it selfe even over the whole world for many ages together. And as for the gods that are worshipped by the Chaldaeans, and the Syrians, as the Sunne and Moone, they are not worth the naming.