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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. GOD is said to do all this, to come to us, and to go from us, and to sanctify them that were void of sanctification: and as you say of the Sun; you say, that the Sun comes into the house, when it fills it with light, but when the windows are shut, you say, the Sun is gone; Yet the Sun alters not, but the change is in regard of the house, It is said to come into the house because of the light that comes into it, which before did not, but the Sun it self is not altered: So in this case, the Holy Ghost sanctifies a man, GOD draws near to him in his comfortable presence, because there are some works wrought in the heart, that before were not: GOD is not changed, but it is the man that suffers the change; he sees light now, that before was in darkness and in the shadow of death; he is said to be changed by reason of those operations that now are there, which before were not. So is it in Christs coming; there was a change in the humane nature that was assumed, which before was not: there was a work done on the earth, which was not before: he put forth his power in his humiliation and exaltation, which before he did not: but yet he was the same, the change was in the creature, and not in him.
Answ. GOD is said to doe all this, to come to us, and to goe from us, and to sanctifie them that were voide of sanctification: and as you say of the Sunne; you say, that the Sunne comes into the house, when it fils it with light, but when the windowes are shut, you say, the Sunne is gone; Yet the Sunne alters not, but the change is in regard of the house, It is said to come into the house because of the light that comes into it, which before did not, but the Sunne it selfe is not altered: So in this case, the Holy Ghost sanctifies a man, GOD drawes neere to him in his comfortable presence, because there are some workes wrought in the heart, that before were not: GOD is not changed, but it is the man that suffers the change; he sees light now, that before was in darkenesse and in the shadow of death; he is said to be changed by reason of those operations that now are there, which before were not. So is it in Christs comming; there was a change in the humane nature that was assumed, which before was not: there was a worke done on the earth, which was not before: he put forth his power in his humiliation and exaltation, which before he did not: but yet he was the same, the change was in the creature, and not in him.