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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 14: THE FOURTEENTH SERMON.Sermon 14: THE FOVRTEENTH 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.
Secondly, if their sin be not scandalous, yet if it be unrepented of, GOD will even punish his own children. And as GOD deals with secret sins to bring them to light: so he will do with secret innocency, on the other side also. As Joseph, whose uprightness was in secret, for none did see it but himself; as for his Mistress, she accused him, and was believed: yet the Lord brought it to light in due season. So he will do thine. Let men keep their credit with GOD, and he will keep their credit with men, let them raise slanders, or what ⟨p. 100⟩they will: look how he did with Joseph, so he will deal with thee, for he changeth not.
Secondly, if their sinne be not scandalous, yet if it be unrepented of, GOD will even punish his owne children. And as GOD deales with secret sinnes to bring them to light: so he will doe with secret innocency, on the other side also. As Ioseph, whose uprightnesse was in secret, for none did see it but himselfe; as for his Mistresse, she accused him, and was believed: yet the Lord brought it to light in due season. So he will doe thine. Let men keepe their credit with GOD, and he will keepe their credit with men, let them raise slanders, or what ⟨p. 100⟩they will: looke how he did with Ioseph, so he will deale with thee, for he changeth not.
So look how the Lord hath dealt with wicked men; look how the Lord did deal with them that did meddle with holy things, as Nadab, and Abihu, and Uzzah, and the Bethshemites; you know that he destroyed them all, and that with a present destruction: so if thou wilt abuse his name, abuse his holy things, and come unto the Sacraments with an uncircumcised heart, he is the same God still, he is as much offended now, and he is as ready to execute his wrath upon thee, as he was then.
So looke how the Lord hath dealt with wicked men; looke how the Lord did deale with them that did meddle with holy things, as Nadab, and Abihu, and Vzzah, and the Bethshemites; you know that he destroyed them all, and that with a present destruction: so if thou wilt abuse his name, abuse his holy things, and come unto the Sacraments with an uncircumcised heart, he is the same God still, hee is as much offended now, and hee is as ready to execute his wrath upon thee, as he was then.