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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.
If a man were in Turkey, or in some other remote place, to traffic there a while, he would not care what the men of that place thought of him, for he saith, this is not the place where I must live: so do you but consider, that this is not the place where you must live, and then of what moment will it appear to you, what men say of you? Beloved, if the soul were mortal, there were some reason that you should make provision for it here; but seeing it is immortal, you ought to make a proportionable provision for it, even for ever: for the body you are apt to make provision, a viaticum beyond the journey; but consider, that you have an immortal soul, which must live for ever, and you must make some provision for it, to carry it so long a journey. It is our Saviours exhortation, Joh. 6.27.1 Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for the meat that endures to everlasting life, &c. As if he should say; if you had no other life to live but this, then you might seek the things of this life, as glory, honour, pleasure, &c, but these things perish, and ⟨p. 165⟩the taste of them perisheth, as the sweetness of meat in the eating; but (saith our Saviour) seek those things that will abide for ever: you have an everlasting life to live, therefore you must make some provision answerable thereunto: As for the body, the soul wears it but as a garment, and when it is worn out, the soul must have a new suit of apparel one day.
If a man were in Turkie, or in some other remote place, to trafficke there a while, hee would not care what the men of that place thought of him, for hee saith, this is not the place where I must live: so doe you but consider, that this is not the place where you must live, and then of what moment will it appeare to you, what men say of you? Beloved, if the soule were mortall, there were some reason that you should make provision for it here; but seeing it is immortall, you ought to make a proportionable provision for it, even for ever: for the body you are apt to make provision, a viaticum beyond the journey; but consider, that you have an immortall soule, which must live for ever, and you must make some provision for it, to carry it so long a journey. It is our Saviours exhortation,