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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.
It is common to no creature with him; you cannot say of any creature, It is; if it be the only property of God to be, then you must say of every creature, It is not; and only the Lord is; which is a strange speech, but yet it is true, or else it is not proper to God only.
It is common to no creature with him; you cannot say of any creature, It is; if it be the only property of God to be, then you must say of every creature, It is not; and onely the Lord is; which is a strange speech, but yet it is true, or else it is not proper to God only.
Object. But you will say; What is the meaning of that? for creatures have a being, though not so excellent a being, as he hath.
Answ. In comparison of him, they have no being at all, they cannot reach to his being: And therefore, what this being is, we will explain to you by these five things:1
Answ. In comparison of him, they have no being at all, they cannot reach to his being: And therefore, what this being is, we will explaine to you by these five things:1
- 1What this Being is, explained in five things.