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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.
Fifthly, The Immenseness or extent of his being.1 Jer. 23.24. Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord? When we consider, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, that largeness presented to our minds, will show his greatness to us.
Fifthly, The Immensenesse or extent of his being.1 Ier. 23.24. Doe not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord? When we consider, that the heaven of heavens cannot containe him, that largenesse presented to our mindes, will shew his greatnesse to us.
- 1By the Immensity of his being.
Sixthly, His holiness shows his greatness. Look as men keep a greater distance from others,1 (as Princes do) so we esteem them greater: Now his holiness is nothing else, but his separation and distance from every creature. Every thing is holy, because it is separated; it is common, because it is not sequestered from other uses: now GOD is separated, none may come near him; as the Cherubims cover their faces before him; and when he was in the Mount, none might approach near to him; if they did, they were to be thrust through with a dart: He dwells in light inaccessible; and therefore the great holiness of GOD shows the greatness of Majesty.
Sixthly, His holinesse shewes his greatnesse. Looke as men keepe a greater distance from others,1