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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.
Consider, whether you exalt him as God, you shall know it by this,1 by seeking to him to fill up all those defects and imperfections, that we meet with in our lives, from day to day. Beloved, there are many things that we want; as if we lose a friend, we complain of a want; if we lose father or mother, it is a want; yea, if we lose nothing, ⟨p. 136⟩yet we find many defects which we would have made up: now, what is the way to do it? If thou thinkest to make them up by the creature, thou wilt find it to be but a small bush that will not stop the gap; but if thou goest to him that is all in all, Coloss. 3. if thou seekest to make it up in him,2 when any thing is lost: when the bucket is broken, if thou goest to the fountain; if a beam be cut off that was given and shined through the creature, if thou goest to the Sun, that can give the like beam through another creature; if thou seekest to have communion with him, then it is an argument that thou esteemest him as thou oughtest to do.
Consider, whether you exalt him as God, you shall know it by this,1 by seeking to him to fill up all those defects and imperfections, that we meet with in our lives, from day to day. Beloved, there are many things that we want; as if we lose a friend, we complaine of a want; if we lose father or mother, it is a want; yea, if wee lose nothing, ⟨p. 136⟩yet we find many defects which we would have made up: now, what is the way to doe it? If thou thinkest to make them up by the creature, thou wilt finde it to be but a small bush that will not stop the gap; but if thou goest to him that is all in all, Coloss. 3. if thou seekest to make it up in him,2