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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.
Use 2 If God be eternal, then be not you offended, because you see that he stays long,1 either in giving reward, or in executing judgement on men for their sins; for with him no time is long, there is no succession with him; therefore say not, because you feel nothing for the present, there are great promises made, but you find no performance; and there be many judgements threatened, but none executed; do not you therefore ⟨p. 169⟩say, that your rewards are neglected, or judgement passed over, and that God hath forgotten. For here you see, that with God no time is long or short, there is no succession with him: you have the same use made of it, Isai. 40.27, 28.2 Why sayest thou O Jacob, and speakest O Israel; My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgement is passed over from my GOD? There is the objection, that which is in the hearts of men: Now you shall see what answer is made to it in the following verse, Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting GOD the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. The meaning is this; To us indeed the time is long, either when reward is deferred, or when the punishment, or the execution of sentence against evil works is deferred; but with God it is not so. Now that which makes it seem long to us, is,
Vse 2 If God be eternall, then be not you offended, because you see that he stayes long,1 either in giving reward, or in executing judgement on men for their sinnes; for with him no time is long, there is no succession with him; therefore say not, because you feele nothing for the present, there are great promises made, but you finde no performance; and there bee many judgements threatned, but none executed; doe not you therefore ⟨p. 169⟩say, that your rewards are neglected, or judgement passed over, and that God hath forgotten. For here you see, that with God no time is long or short, there is no succession with him: you have the same use made of it,