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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. That cannot be; because whatsoever hath any thing originally, must have the whole, and not a part; as the Sun, because it hath the light originally, therefore it hath not a part, but the whole, though afterward it gives light to many; so a ⟨p. 142⟩fountain, that hath water originally, hath not the part, but the whole, though afterwards it runs into many brooks; and if there were but one fountain, as there is but one Sun, then all the water would be in that fountain, as the light is in the Sun.
Answ. That cannot be; because whatsoever hath any thing originally, must have the whole, and not a part; as the Sunne, because it hath the light originally, therefore it hath not a part, but the whole, though afterward it gives light to many; so a ⟨p. 142⟩fountaine, that hath water originally, hath not the part, but the whole, though afterwards it runnes into many brookes; and if there were but one fountaine, as there is but one Sunne, then all the water would be in that fountaine, as the light is in the Sunne.
Now to apply this, look upon all the creatures, and you shall find that they have all but part of being; the Angels have one part, men another, and other creatures another part, &c. which is an argument that there is a whole, which is GOD blessed for ever.
Now to apply this, looke upon all the creatures, and you shal find that they have all but part of being; the Angels have one part, men another, and other creatures another part, &c. which is an argument that there is a whole, which is GOD blessed for ever.