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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.
That eternal duration that they have, is not intrinsical to them, it is dependent, they receive it from another.
That eternall duration that they have, is not intrinsecall to them, it is dependent, they receive it from another.
They cannot communicate it to another, nor extend it beyond themselves; the Angels, though they be eternal, yet they cannot make other things to be eternal; God only can do this.
They cannot communicate it to another, nor extend it beyond themselves; the Angels, though they bee eternall, yet they cannot make other things to be eternall; God onely can doe this.
All the acts of the creatures, all their pleasures and thoughts, and whatsoever is in them do admit a succession, a continual flux and motion; but in God it is not so; he is as a rock in the water that stands fast though the waves move about it; so is it with God: and though the creatures admit of a continual flux and succession about him, as the waves do; yet there is none in him. And these are the differences between the eternity of God, and the duration of all the creatures. Now follows the fourth thing.
All the acts of the creatures, all their pleasures and thoughts, and whatsoever is in them doe admit a succession, a continuall flux and motion; but in God it is not so; he is as a rocke in the water that stands fast though the waves move about it; so is it with God: and though the creatures admit of a continuall flux and succession about him, as the waves doe; yet there is none in him. And these are the differences betweene the eternity of God, and the duration of all the creatures. Now followes the fourth thing.