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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.
2, Every Spirit moves it self, and other things also: The body is but an earthy piece, that is not able to stir it self at all, as you see it is when the soul is gone out of it, it is the spirit, that both moves it self, and carries the body up and down where it listeth, and it moves it self with all speed, and agility, because it finds no resistance. Bodies, beside their elementary motion upward and downward, have no voluntary motion, they cannot move themselves whither they will, as spirits do; And this I gather out of Joh 3.8. the Holy Ghost is compared to the wind, 1that blows where it listeth.
2, Every Spirit moves it selfe, and other things also: The body is but an earthy piece, that is not able to stirre it selfe at all, as you see it is when the soule is gone out of it, it is the spirit, that both moves it selfe, and carries the body up and downe where it listeth, and it moves it selfe with all speed, and agility, because it finds no resistance. Bodies, beside their elementarie motion vpward and downeward, have no voluntarie motion, they cannot move themselves whither they will, as spirits doe; And this I gather out of Ioh 3.8. the Holy Ghost is compared to the wind, 1that blowes where it listeth.
3. It is the property of every Spirit to move with exceeding great force and strength, and with much vehemency, so that it far exceeds the strength of any body. Therefore in Isa: 31.3. speaking of the strength of the Egyptians, 1