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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.
Thirdly, thou must renew thy resolution oft: it is not enough to set the heart in a good frame of grace for a day, or two, or for a month, but thou must have a constant course in doing of it, ever and anon: as the Dutch men use to do with their banks, that keep them with little cost, because they look narrowly to them; if there be but the least breach, they make it up presently, otherwise the water makes a breach upon them. So thou shouldest do with thy heart: observe it from day to day, mark what objections come, that thou canst not answer, what lusts and desires do overbalance thee, and learn still to renew thy reasons and resolutions against them: and this will make thee constant, and firm, and peremptory in well-doing.
Thirdly, thou must renew thy resolution oft: it is not enough to set the heart in a good frame of grace for a day, or two, or for a moneth, but thou must have a constant course in doing of it, ever and anon: as the Dutch men use to doe with their bankes, that keepe them with little cost, because they looke narrowly to them; if there be but the least breach, they make it up presently, otherwise the water makes a breach upon them. So thou shouldest doe with thy heart: observe it from day to day, marke what objections come, that thou canst not answer, what lusts and desires doe overballance thee, and learne still to renew thy reasons and resolutions against them: and this will make thee constant, and firme, and peremptory in well-doing.
Now I come to the next Attribute, and that is, The Greatness of God, or his Infiniteness: 1We follow in this rather the rule of the Scripture, than the tract of the Schoolmen, and we insist upon those that God doth especially take to him in Scripture.
NOw I come to the next Attribute, and that is, The Greatnesse of God, or his Infinitenesse: 1We follow in this rather the rule of the Scripture, than the tract of the Schoolemen, and wee insist upon those that God doth especially take to him in Scripture.