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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.
And further to move you to this, consider the shortness and vanity of this life,1 how all mankind are hurried and rapt with a sudden motion to the west of their days. Our fathers went before us, we follow them, and our children follow us at the heels, as one wave follows another, and at last we are all dashed on the shore of death: and withal, consider the vanity that all conditions are subject unto; whether they be mountains or valleys; if mountains, they are subject to blasts, to be envied; or if valleys, to be over-drowned, oppressed, and contemned; yea, the things that we prize most, honour and pleasure; what do they but weary us, and then whet our appetite to a new edge? Consider the men that have been before us; many men that have been like a green tree, but now the flood of their wealth is ⟨p. 168⟩dried up, they and their goods have perished together.
And further to move you to this, consider the shortnesse and vanity of this life,1 how all mankinde are hurried and rapt with a sudden motion to the west of their dayes. Our fathers went before us, we follow them, and our children follow us at the heeles, as one wave followes another, and at last we are all dashed on the shore of death: and withal, consider the vanity that al conditions are subject unto; whether they be mountaines or valleyes; if mountaines, they are subject to blasts, to be envied; or if valleyes, to be over-drowned, oppressed, and contemned; yea, the things that we prize most, honour and pleasure; what doe they but weary us, and then whet our appetite to a new edge? Consider the men that have beene before us; many men that have beene like a greene tree, but now the floud of their wealth is ⟨p. 168⟩dried up, they and their goods have perished together.
- 1Motives hereunto.