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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.
So look what he hath done to all his Saints, he hath blessed them, and heard them. But thou wilt say, I have prayed, and I am not heard. I say to thee, if thy case be the same, ⟨p. 103⟩thou shalt be heard. To this end are those places: The Lords hand is not shortened, 1that he cannot save, nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: This is the scope of the Prophet; as if he should say, you wonder why you are not heard, that you have not the same success in prayer that they had, but the case is not the same, saith he: they repented, but you do not; you are mistaken, for you are yet in your sins; I am as strong to help you, and as ready, and if I do it not, it is because the case is different: your sins have made a separation between me and you. Which implies, that GOD will hear if the case be the same. Only remember this, that GOD may defer it something long before he hears you, yet he will do it in the end.
So looke what he hath done to all his Saints, hee hath blessed them, and heard them. But thou wilt say, I have prayed, and I am not heard. I say to thee, if thy case be the same, ⟨p. 103⟩thou shalt be heard. To this end are those places: The Lords hand is not shortened, 1that he cannot save, nor his eare heavie, that it cannot heare: This is the scope of the Prophet; as if he should say, you wonder why you are not heard, that you have not the same successe in prayer that they had, but the case is not the same, saith he: they repented, but you doe not; you are mistaken, for you are yet in your sinnes; I am as strong to helpe you, and as ready, and if I doe it not, it is because the case is different: your sins have made a separation betweene me and you. Which implies, that GOD will heare if the case be the same. Onely remember this, that GOD may deferre it something long before he heares you, yet he will doe it in the end.