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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.
Use 4 If unchangeableness be proper to GOD (for so you must understand it, proper to him, and common to no other) then learn to know the difference between him and the creatures.
Vse 4 If unchangeablenesse be proper to GOD (for so you must understand it, proper to him, and common to no other) then learne to know the difference betweene him and the creatures.
There be diverse branches of this use:1 As,
- 1Contains two branches.Containes two branches.
First if this be so, then every creature is, and must be changeable, and if so, then take heed, that you do not expect more of the creature,1 then is in it, for this will raise our affections to the creature, and so cause grief and vexation in the end: and indeed the forgetfulness of this changeableness in the creature, and unchangeableness in GOD is the cause of all our crosses and sorrow in outward things we meet with. There be these degrees to it.
First if this be so, then every creature is, and must be changeable, and if so, then take heed, that you doe not expect more of the creature,1 then is in it, for this will raise our affections to the creature, and so cause griefe and vexation in the end: and indeede the forgetfulnesse of this changeablenesse in the creature, and unchangablenesse in GOD is the cause of all our crosses and sorrow in outward things we meet with. There be these degrees to it.