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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. How doest thou conceive of the soul of another man when thou speakest to him? thou never didst see it, yet thou knowest that there is such a spirit that fills the body, and that doth understand what thou sayest, and speaks to thee again; so remember this of the Lord, that he is a Spirit. Compare Jer. 23.24. with this:1 Can any man hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him, saith the Lord? Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
Answ. How doest thou conceive of the soule of another man when thou speakest to him? thou never didst see it, yet thou knowest that there is such a spirit that fills the body, and that doth understand what thou sayest, and speakes to thee againe; so remember this of the Lord, that he is a Spirit. Compare Ier. 23.24. with this:1 Can any man hide himselfe in secret places, that I shall not see him, saith the Lord? Doe not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
Secondly, That the Lord fills heaven and earth, as the soul fills the body: so that thou must think that he sees all things, and hears all things. Indeed the Lord is not in the world, as the soul is in the body, but in an incomprehensible manner, which we cannot express to you; yet this is an expression which we may help our selves by, and is used every where in Scripture.