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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.
The first Attribute of GOD.
First then, we will take this out of the Text, I AM hath sent me unto you;
FIrst then, we will take this out of the Text, I AM hath sent me unto you;
That God is perfect;1 he hath all the kinds, degrees, and extents of being in him. There be divers kinds of being in the world; some have more, some less; some have a more excellent being, some have a less excellent; some have a larger being, some a lesser, and yet all are in him; and this is his perfection. Imperfection is a want of some being; Perfection is to have all the degrees of being, that belong to a thing in his kind, but all this is in God.
That God is perfect;1 he hath all the kindes, degrees, and extents of being in him. There be divers kindes of being in the world; some have more, some lesse; some have a more excellent being, some have a lesse excellent; some have a larger being, some a lesser, and yet all are in him; and this is his perfection. Imperfection is a want of some being; Perfection is to have all the degrees of being, that belong to a thing in his kind, but all this is in God.
- 1God is perfect.