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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.
Answ. Consider, what ariseth in thy spirit, when it is stirred at any time, and there thou shalt find what the pollution of the spirit is. Set a pot on the fire, and put flesh into it; while it is cold, there is nothing but water and meat: but set it a boiling, and then the scum ariseth. It is a ⟨p. 12⟩similitude used in Ezek. 24.11, 12.1 I say, observe what ariseth in thy spirit, at any time, when there is some commotion, when thy spirit is stirred more than ordinary, now every temptation is, as it were, a fire to make the pot boil, any injury that is offered to us, this makes the scum to arise, now see what ariseth out there, and when any object comes to allure thee to sin, see what thoughts arise in thy heart, as the thoughts of profit or preferment, so that when such an opportunity comes, it stirs the spirit, and sets it on boiling; consider what then ariseth in thy heart, and thou shalt see what thy spirit is. And that which thou art to do, when thou findest it, is to confess it to the Lord, and suffer it not to come into outward act; cast it out, suffer it not to boil in: Ezek. 24.13.2
Answ. Consider, what ariseth in thy spirit, when it is stirred at any time, and there thou shalt finde what the pollution of the spirit is. Set a pot on the fire, and put flesh into it; while it is colde, there is nothing but water and meat: but set it a boyling, and then the scumme ariseth. It is a ⟨p. 12⟩similitude used in Ezek. 24.11, 12.1 I say, observe what ariseth in thy spirit, at any time, whē there is some commotion, when thy spirit is stirred more than ordinary, now every temptation is, as it were, a fire to make the pot boyle, any injurie that is offered to us, this makes the scumme to arise, now see what ariseth out there, and when any object comes to allure thee to sinne, see what thoughts arise in thy heart, as the thoughts of profit or preferment, so that when such an opportunity comes, it stirres the spirit, and sets it on boyling; consider what then ariseth in thy heart, and thou shalt see what thy spirit is. And that which thou art to doe, when thou findest it, is to confesse it to the Lord, and suffer it not to come into outward act; cast it out, suffer it not to boyle in: