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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.
But what if they fast and pray? No; if they do that, I will not hear them. Jer. 14.11, 12. Then GOD said unto me, pray not for this people ⟨p. 83⟩for their good: when they fast, I will not hear their cry; when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them, but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. When the day of death comes, when the time of sickness and extremity comes, then you will cry, and cry earnestly: but God shall say to you then, the time was, when I cried to you by the Ministers, and you would not hear: nay, you slighted and mocked them, and you would not hear them, I will also mock & laugh at your destruction. Prov: 1.26. Do not think this is a case that seldom comes, it is done every day, continually upon some. There is a double time: a time of preparing and trying before this unchangeable decree come forth. Zeph. 2.1, 2. Gather your selves together, yea gather together, O nation not desired, before the decree come forth, before the day pass, as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lords anger come upon you. And there is a time, when the decree is past; and when this is not past, there is a door of hope opened: but when the decree is come forth, then you are past hope.
But what if they fast and pray? No; if they doo that, I will not heare them. Ier. 14.11, 12. Then GOD said unto me, pray not for this people ⟨p. 83⟩for their good: when they fast, I will not heare their cry; when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them, but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. When the day of death comes, when the time of sickenesse and extremitie comes, then you will cry, and cry earnestly: but God shall say to you then, the time was, when I cryed to you by the Ministers, and you would not heare: nay, you slighted and mocked them, and you would not heare them, I will also mocke & laugh at your destruction. Prov: 1.26. Doe not thinke this is a case that seldome comes, it is done every day, continually upon some. There is a double time: a time of preparing and trying before this unchangeable decree come forth.