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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.
The third Attribute of GOD.
WE come now to a third Attribute, and that is the Eternity of GOD;1 for God doth not say, He that was, but He that is, hath sent me unto you. He that is without all cause, the efficient and final, he must needs be eternal; he that hath no beginning nor end, must needs be eternal: and besides, in that he saith, I am that I am, not, I am that I was, it must needs be that he is without succession.
WE come now to a third Attribute, and that is the Eternity of GOD;1 for God doth not say, He that was, but He that is, hath sent me unto you. He that is without all cause, the efficient and finall, he must needs be eternall; he that hath no beginning nor end, must needs be eternall: and besides, in that he saith, I am that I am, not, I am that I was, it must needs be that hee is without succession.
- 1A third Attribute of God. His Eternity.
Therefore from hence we may gather, that