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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.
Because he being before any thing was; and therefore, he must needs be full, without them, and whatsoever they have, they receive it from him. You shall see this in Act. 17.25.1 Neither is he worshipped with mens hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath, and all things. He proves there, that God is perfect; because he needs nothing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things. That which is said of man, may be said of every thing else; What hast thou, that thou hast not received? Therefore, he that gives it, must needs be full of it. It is said that he made man after his own Image; and so he makes every thing else, he is the life of them all. Now the sampler and the life hath more in it, than the image; and therefore the life, and first ⟨p. 121⟩original; the realty, and first beginning must needs be perfect in himself.
Because hee being before any thing was; and therfore, he must needs be ful, without them, and whatsoever they have, they receive it from him. You shall see this in Act. 17.25.1 Neither is he worshipped with mens hands, as though hee needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath, and all things. He proves there, that God is perfect; because he needs nothing, seeing hee gives to all life, and breath, and all things. That which is said of man, may be said of every thing else; What hast thou, that thou hast not received? Therefore, hee that gives it, must needs be full of it. It is said that he made man after his owne Image; and so he makes every thing else, hee is the life of them all. Now the sampler and the life hath more in it, than the image; and therefore the life, and first ⟨p. 121⟩originall; the realty, and first beginning must needs be perfect in himselfe.
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