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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.
but if we do them our selves, we are as they that fished all the night long, and caught nothing, till Christ came, and bade them to cast in the net, then they enclosed a great multitude of fishes: So it is with us, when we go about any enterprise, it is in vain, we are not able to do it. There is a double going about any enterprise; when we go about an enterprise without God, and when we go about it with him. When we go about it without God, I confess, that yet some things are brought to pass; and that will serve to answer an objection which you have fully expressed in Psal. 37.7.1 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him; fret not thy self because of him, who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass, &c. There is the objection.
but if we doe them our selves, wee are as they that fished all the night long, and caught nothing, till Christ came, and bade them to cast in the net, then they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: So it is with us, when we goe about any enterprise, it is in vaine, we are not able to doe it. There is a double going about any enterprise; when we goe about an enterprise without God, and when we goe about it with him. When wee goe about it without God, I confesse, that yet some things are brought to passe; and that will serve to answer an objection which you have fully expressed in Psal. 37.7.1 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him; fret not thy selfe because of him, who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to passe, &c. There is the objection.