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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.
Answ. Yea, but how doest thou bestow thy labour? Isai. 55.2.1 Wherefore do you spend money for that, which is not bread? and your labour for that, which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight it self in fatness. Let a man consider in this case, how he bestoweth his pains: if he think to have all in God, he will save his pains, and not lay it out upon vanity, but he will bestow it to some purpose; that is, he will take much pains to seek his favour in all things, and look to him for a supply of all, and not to the creatures, because they can do but little, they have no power, no strength to do any thing, they are of no moment; but if God be pleased to make up the defect, then if he have but little wealth, he will make it to serve his turn; if ⟨p. 137⟩he have but one friend, it shall be to him, as if he had many; if he hath but a little credit, it shall be to him, as if he had a great name, &c. all things else are but of a little bulk without him.
Answ. Yea, but how doest thou bestow thy labour? Isai. 55.2.1 Wherefore doe you spend money for that, which is not bread? and your labour for that, which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto mee, and eat that which is good, and let your soule delight it selfe in fatnesse. Let a man consider in this case, how he bestoweth his paines: if he thinke to have all in God, he will save his paines, and not lay it out upon vanitie, but he will bestow it to some purpose; that is, he will take much paines to seeke his favour in all things, and looke to him for a supply of all, and not to the creatures, because they can doe but little, they have no power, no strength to doe any thing, they are of no moment; but if God be pleased to make up the defect, then if he have but little wealth, he will make it to serve his turne; if ⟨p. 137⟩he have but one friend, it shall be to him, as if he had many; if he hath but a little credit, it shall be to him, as if he had a great name, &c. all things else are but of a little bulke without him.