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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.
Therefore look always to worship him in spirit, remember the argument here used, GOD is a Spirit: that is, look how the corporeal eye of man beholds the body, when thou comest to Church, and can see the negligence of thy behaviour, and uncomely gesture; so GOD, that is a spirit, he beholds the vanity and looseness of thy spirit within, the turning and rolling of it this way, or that way; therefore take diligent heed to thy spirit; labour to approve thy self to him, care not what any creature saith or thinketh of thee; and this is to worship him in thy spirit.
Therefore looke alwayes to worship him in spirit, remember the argument here used, GOD is a Spirit: that is, looke how the corporeall eye of man beholds the body, when thou commest to Church, and can see the negligence of thy behaviour, and uncomely gesture; so GOD, that is a spirit, he beholds the vanity and loosenesse of thy spirit within, the turning and rouling of it this way, or that way; therefore take diligent heede to thy spirit; labour to approve thy selfe to him, care not what any creature saith or thinketh of thee; and this is to worship him in thy spirit.
Now here are two Questions to be answered.
Quest. 1 If GOD must thus be worshipped in spirit, and it is the behaviour of that which he looks to, what necessity is there then of a bodily, comely, and outward gesture? how far is this required in his worship?1
Quest. 1 If GOD must thus be worshipped in spirit, and it is the behaviour of that which he lookes to, what necessity is there then of a bodily, comely, and outward gesture? how farre is this required in his worship?