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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
Sermon 12: THE TWELFTH SERMON.Sermon 12: THE TVVELFTH SERMON.
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.
In the next place consider man, and as he is much more compounded than the Angels, so he is more weak, more subject to impediment, more liable to decay and ruin, as sickness, distemper, crosses, death: for he hath not only a rational faculty, as the Angels have, but sensitive; a sensitive memory, a sensitive fancy, and a sensitive appetite; he hath also a body consisting of divers members, needing many external helps, as air, diet, houses, exercises, and so he is subject to many weaknesses, many hurts, many impediments, and losses of all sorts.
In the next place consider man, and as hee is much more compounded than the Angels, so he is more weake, more subject to impediment, more liable to decay and ruine, as sicknesse, distemper, crosses, death: for he hath not onely a rationall faculty, as the Angels have, but sensitive; a sensitive memory, a sensitive fancy, and a sensitive appetite; he hath also a body consisting of divers members, needing many externall helpes, as aire, diet, houses, exercises, and so he is subject to many weaknesses, many hurts, many impediments, and losses of all sorts.
Object. You will say, this is a mans natural condition indeed, but how shall this be helped?
Object. You will say, this is a mans naturall condition indeed, but how shall this be helped?
Answ. The natural condition cannot be changed▪ but it may be exceedingly helped; as, if we bring our hearts to be content with a more or less simplicity of condition, that is, if the disposition and constitution of the mind be such, that it be not dependent upon many things, but upon few; this is done, when the thoughts and ⟨p. 56⟩