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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.
Fourthly, Consider it from his works: you see that he hath made the world of nothing.1 Whence I reason: If you would heat the air, it is more easily heated than water, because the passive power is nearer the active; and if you would heat water, you may more easily heat it than the earth: Now according to the resistance, according to the passive power, such is the active: if the passive power lie open, the active power is less, that works upon it: now when the passive power is infinitely low, then the active power must be infinitely high, and answerable to it. Therefore when GOD comes to make something of nothing, the active power must be exceeding high, because the passive power is so low: and therefore requires an infinite active power to make something of nothing, and consequently, he must be infinite, in whom this power is seated.
Fourthly, Consider it from his workes: you see that hee hath made the world of nothing.1 Whence I reason: If you would heate the aire, it is more easily heated than water, because the passive power is neerer the active; and if you would heate water, you may more easily heate it than the earth: Now according to the resistance, according to the passive power, such is the active: if the passive power lie open, the active power is lesse, that workes upon it: now when the passive power is infinitely low, then the active power must be infinitely high, and answerable to it. Therefore when GOD comes to make something of nothing, the active power must bee exceeding high, because the passive power is so low: and therefore requires an infinite active power to make something of nothing, and consequently, hee must be infinite, in whom this power is seated.
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Use 1 If he be so great a GOD, he that is our God, the GOD,