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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.
3 It tends to their own hurt, to their own ruin; if they get wealth, favour with great men, credit, &c. the sword turns to their own bowels, their ease slays them, and it turns to their own destruction. Therefore take heed of it; if thou doest go about it with God, he will give thee the comfort of it. One thing brought to pass by him, is better than a thousand by themselves without him.
3 It tends to their owne hurt, to their owne ruine; if they get wealth, favour with great men, credit, &c. the sword turnes to their owne bowels, their ease slayes them, and it turnes to their owne destruction. Therefore take heed of it; if thou doest goe about it with God, hee will give thee the comfort of it. One thing brought to passe by him, is better than a thousand by themselves without him.
1Learn from hence the only remedy against the vanity that all creatures are subject to,2 that we have to do withal; for what is the reason of that mutability, we find in all things? Is it not from hence, that they have no being of their own? If you look to the rock, to the foundation; from whence they were hewen, and to the hole of the pit, from whence they were digged, they were made of nothing, and are ready to return to nothing. Take a glass, or an earthen vessel, they are brittle; if you ask the reason, they are made of brittle materials: plate is not so; so that this is the reason of all the vanity under the Sun, because they are made of nothing. Therefore there is no way to remedy this, but to look up to God, Act. 17.28.3 For in him we live, move, and have our being. This is the meaning of it. They have not only had their being from him at the first, but their being is in him. We have our being in him, as the beams in the Sun, and an accident in the subject.