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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.
2 There is a light of the understanding, or reason, put into us, whereby we are able to discern those characters of God stamped in the creatures, whereby we may discern the invisible things of God, his infinite power and wisdom; and when these are put together, that which is written in the creature, there are arguments enough in them, and in us there is reason enough, to see ⟨p. 5⟩the force of those arguments, and thence we may conclude that there is a GOD, besides the arguments of Scripture, that we have to reveal it. For, though I said before, that Divinity was revealed by the HOLY GHOST, yet there is this difference in the points of Theology: 1Some truths are wholly revealed, and have no foot-steps in the creatures, no prints in the creation, or in the works of GOD, to discern them by, and such are all the mysteries of the Gospel, and of the Trinity: other truths there are, that have some vestigia, some characters stamped upon the creature, whereby we may discern them, and such is this which we now have in hand, that, There is a God.2
2 There is a light of the understanding, or reason, put into us, whereby we are able to discerne those characters of God stamped in the creatures, whereby we may discerne the invisible things of God, his infinite power and wisdome; and when these are put together, that which is written in the creature, there are arguments enough in them, and in us there is reason enough, to see ⟨p. 5⟩the force of those arguments, and thence we may conclude that there is a GOD, besides the arguments of Scripture, that wee have to reveale it. For, though I said before, that Divinity was revealed by the HOLY GHOST, yet there is this difference in the points of Theologie: 1Some truths are wholly revealed, and have no foot-steps in the creatures, no prints in the creation, or in the workes of GOD, to discerne them by, and such are all the mysteries of the Gospell, and of the Trinitie: other truths there are, that have some vestigia, some characters stamped upon the creature, whereby wee may discerne them, and such is this which wee now have in hand, that, There is a God.