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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.
Now, if his eye be chiefly upon the spirit, thou shouldest labour to let thine eye be chiefly still upon thy spirit, and so thou shalt most please him. Let thy eye be upon thy soul, to keep it clean, that it may be fit for communion with him, who is a spirit. This should teach you to look to the fashion of your souls within, because they are likest to him, and carry his image in them; he is a father of them in a special manner, and they are that whereby you may have communion with him, in that which is most proper unto him, in spiritual exercises and performances.
Now, if his eye be chiefly upon the spirit, thou shouldest labour to let thine eye be chiefly still upon thy spirit, and so thou shalt most please him. Let thy eye be upon thy soule, to keepe it cleane, that it may be fit for communion with him, who is a spirit. This should teach you to looke to the fashion of your soules within, because they are likest to him, and carry his image in them; he is a father of them in a speciall manner, and they are that whereby you may have communion with him, in that which is most proper unto him, in spirituall exercises and performances.
Object. But, you will say, what is it that you would have us to do to our spirits,1 to have them fit for the Lord, that he may regard them, and that they may be like to him?
Object. But, you will say, what is it that you would have us to doe to our spirits,1 to have them fit for the Lord, that he may regard them, and that they may be like to him?
- 1How that is to be done.