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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.
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.
Answ. 1 1 Thou must scour and cleanse them from all filthiness. 2 Cor. 7.1.1 Having therefore these promises, (dearly beloved, let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh, and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. There is a pollution, which the Apostle speaks of, which pollution he divides into two kinds, of the flesh, of the spirit: both of these, thou must labour to be cleansed from, but specially that of the spirit, if t••n wouldst have it fit to have the Lord to delight in: for he being a Spirit, doth most regard those actions which are done by the Spirit, and therefore that is the thing that mainly thou shouldst look to.
Answ. 1 1 Thou must scoure and cleanse them from all filthinesse. 2 Cor. 7.1.1 Having therefore these promises, (dearely beloved, let us cleanse our selves from all filthinisse of the flesh, and spirit, perfecting holinesse in the feare of God. There is a pollution, which the Apostle speakes of, which pollution he divides into two kindes, of the flesh, of the spirit: both of these, thou must labour to bee cleansed from, but specially that of the spirit, if tn wouldst have it fit to have the Lord to delight in: for he being a Spirit, doth most regard those actions which are done by the Spirit, and therefore that is the thing that mainely thou shouldst looke to.