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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.
Use 7 If God be thus full, then you should give him the praise of his perfection,1 and stay your thoughts upon him. It is a thing that we come short of, for the most part, for we are ready to ask, what is God to us? what profit, what good is it to us? (for that is the base nature of ours;) but grace teacheth us otherwise, we must learn to know God, to honour and magnify him in our thoughts for himself. Some men have a greater knowledge of God, some less; he that hath more, he is able to set him up higher in his apprehension, and to give him the more praise, Psal. 68.1.2 Exalt him in his name JAH, that is, consider that he alone is full of being, and gives being to all things; therefore (saith he) praise him, and extol him for this, and let your thoughts be upon him.
Vse 7 If God be thus ful, then you should give him the praise of his perfection,1 and stay your thoughts upon him. It is a thing that we come short of, for the most part, for we are ready to aske, what is God to us? what profit, what good is it to us? (for that is the base nature of ours;) but grace teacheth us otherwise, we must learne to know God, to honour and magnifie him in our thoughts for himselfe. Some men have a greater knowledge of God, some lesse; hee that hath more, he is able to set him up higher in his apprehension, and to give him the more praise, Psal. 68.1.2 Exalt him in his name IAH, that is, consider that he alone is ful of being, and gives being to all things; therefore (saith he) praise him, and extoll him for this, and let your thoughts be upon him.
- 1To praise God for himself, give him the honour of his perfection.To praise God for himselfe, give him the honour of his perfection.