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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.
Quest. 2 How should we conceive of GOD in prayer, seeing he is a Spirit, and a Spirit we never saw: what conceit and apprehension of GOD should we have then when we come to call upon his name?
Answ. We may not conceive him under any corporeal shape, for he is a Spirit: and therefore they that think they may worship the humanity ⟨p. 45⟩of Christ disjoined, are deceived: we are not to worship it as separated from his Deity; for we are to worship the Trinity in the Unity, and the Unity in Trinity, which we cannot do, if we worship his humanity as separated from his Deity. Therefore when you come to pray before GOD, you must remember *that he is a Spirit, filling heaven and earth, strong, gracious, merciful, full of goodness and truth, &c. concerning which three things are to be considered.
Answ. Wee may not conceive him under any corporeall shape, for he is a Spirit: and therefore they that thinke they may worship the humanity ⟨p. 45⟩of Christ disjoyned, are deceived: we are not to worship it as separated from his Deity; for we are to worship the Trinity in the Vnity, and the Vnity in Trinity, which we cannot doe, if we worship his humanitie as separated from his Deity. Therefore when you come to pray before GOD, you must remember *that he is a Spirit, filling heaven and earth, strong, gracious, mercifull, full of goodnesse and truth, &c. concerning which three things are to bee considered.