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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 impurity of his doctrine, he cut off what was hard to be believed,1 and whatsoever was difficult to practise, and he propounded that to the people, wherein there was no hardness, no difficulty, promising them a paradise, wherein they should have all pleasures, and should enjoy women; and also they should have meat, drink, apparel, and fruits of all sorts; as also, they should have silken, and purple carpets to lye upon, &c. and also he professeth that he had a licence given ⟨p. 85⟩him from God, to know what women he would, and to put them away when he would; which licence was given to him and to no other. All which arguments are enough to show the vanity and falsehood of this their religion.
The impuritie of his doctrine, he cut off what was hard to be beleeved,1 and whatsoever was difficult to practise, and he propounded that to the people, wherein there was no hardnesse, no difficultie, promising them a paradise, wherein they should have all pleasures, and should enjoy women; and also they should have meat, drinke, apparell, and fruits of all sorts; as also, they should have silken, and purple carpets to lye upon, &c. and also he professeth that he had a licence given ⟨p. 85⟩him from God, to know what women he would, and to put them away when he would; which licence was given to him and to no other. All which arguments are enough to shew the vanitie and falshood of this their religion.
- 14 His doctrine is impure, and so his life.
Use 1 Seeing there is none other god besides the Lord, we should fix this principle in us,