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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.
1 One is gross, as the worshipping of Baal, Mahomet, &c. and that you are free from, because there is light enough in the Church to see the vanity of them.
1 One is grosse, as the worshipping of Baal, Mahomet, &c. and that you are free from, because there is light enough in the Church to see the vanity of them.
2 There is another kind of Idolatry, which Saint James speaks of, James 4.1 Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, you make riches your god, and honour, and your belly, your god; and when you sacrifice to your own nets, that is, to outward and secondary means, or when we join any other thing with God; now this is Idolatry, which is common amongst us. Our nature is as prone to Idolatry as any, though not in that kind: for man is a weak creature, and therefore he seeks something to repose himself upon; and because they find not any one thing sufficient; therefore they put their confidence in many, Rom. 1.2 For all Idolatry is upon one of these three grounds:
2 There is another kinde of Idolatry, which Saint Iames speakes of, Iames 4.1 Yee adulterers, and adulteresses, you make riches your god, and honour, and your belly, your god; and when you sacrifice to your owne nets, that is, to outward and secondary meanes, or when we joyne any other thing with God; now this is Idolatrie, which is common amongst us. Our nature is as prone to Idolatry as any, though not in that kind: for man is a weake creature, and therefore hee seekes something to repose himselfe upon; and because they finde not any one thing sufficient; therefore they put their confidence in many,