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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. 2 We say that they are nothing, because they are at his command;1 if he would do us good, he never wants one to send of his errand; if he will make a man rich, he wants not wealth, it is at his command; if he will give a man friends, he can fetch them again; if all thy friends be present, yet they stir not, unless he command. The rich and the poor, they meet together, but the LORD makes them both. And in this regard, riches are said to be nothing, Prov. 23.2 Riches take to themselves wings, and fly away; And, why doest thou set thy heart upon that which is nothing? That is, they go and come at his command; and therefore they are to be accounted as nothing. If a man see a flock of the best fowl on his land, yet he looks upon them as nothing to him, because they have wings and will fly away; and you should think so of all things else; that they have wings, that they go and come at his command, that they are nothing, because they are nothing to you.
Answ. 2 We say that they are nothing, because they are at his command;1 if he would doe us good, hee never wants one to send of his errand; if he will make a man rich, he wants not wealth, it is at his command; if he will give a man friends, he can fetch them againe; if all thy friends be present, yet they stirre not, unlesse he command. The rich and the poore, they meet together, but the LORD makes them both. And in this regard, riches are said to be nothing, Prov. 23.2 Riches take to themselves wings, and fly away; And, why doest thou set thy heart upon that which is nothing? That is, they goe and come at his command; and therfore they are to be accounted as nothing. If a man see a flocke of the best fowle on his land, yet he looks upon them as nothing to him, because they have wings and will fly away; and you should thinke so of all things else; that they have wings, that they goe and come at his command, that they are nothing, because they are nothing to you.