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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.
Answ. Saith GOD, I will give them favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, and not send them empty, and I will provide food for them.
Answ. Saith GOD, I will give them favour in the eyes of the Aegyptians, and not send them emptie, and I will provide food for them.
So Moses went. A strange kind of errand; as if one should go and tell the great Turk, that the God of the Christians hath sent to let them go: but yet Moses goeth; and all that comforted him, was […] the revealing of this Name.
So Moses went. A strange kinde of errand; as if one should goe and tell the great Turke, that the God of the Christians hath sent to let them goe: but yet Moses goeth; and all that comforted him, was 〈…〉 the revealing of this Name.
Now apply this to your selves; when you are in any distress, know that he that made the heavens and the earth, can give a being to all these things: Isaiah 50.10.1 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servants, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his GOD. He that walketh in darkness, and hath no light; let that be thy case, that every thing is desperate, thou seest not a jot of light, nor spark of hope, yet trust in the Name of Jehovah, he can make light, when there is none; a man that hath no grace in his heart, let him trust in Jehovah, that saith in his heart, I would I could be rid of such a lust, and that I could keep holy the Sabbath, but I have nothing in me, my heart is empty of all; (this is the complaint often even of those that have grace:) why, if there be no light, no grace, yet he can work it; and so Paul applies that in