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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 16 › Part 7 › The Jnfinitenesse of his presence, Or, His Jmmensity.
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.
Quest. Only this question may be asked, Whether he be without the world, as well as he is in the world? Because some have disputed it; therefore we will briefly answer it.
Quest. Onely this question may be asked, Whether he be without the world, as well as he is in the world? Because some have disputed it; therefore we will briefly answer it.
Answ. The Scripture is clear in it, that he is without the world: there is no limits of his essence, that we can set down; he is not contained within the compass of heaven and earth, as you shall see in 2 Chron 2.6. But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? But this is but a curious question: therefore I will leave it, and will come to show the reason of his omnipresence, why he is immense, why he is every where, as I have done in the rest.
Answ. The Scripture is cleare in it, that he is without the world: there is no limits of his essence, that wee can set downe; hee is not contained within the compasse of heaven and earth, as you shall see in 2 Chron 2.6. But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven of heavens cannot containe him? But this is but a curious question: therefore I will leave it, and will come to shew the reason of his omnipresence, why hee is immense, why he is every where, as I have done in the rest.
11. This property or Attribute of immensity must needs be given to God, because his essence is infinite, which hath been before proved. Now as the argument holds good, that according to the substance of every thing, such must the quality be in things that have quantity; if the body be great, so must the quantity be: So, if God be an infinite essence, (as he is) there is as good reason that he should have an infinite presence accompanying it, as that a great body hath a quantity answerable to it. So that he is of an infinite being, and therefore also of an infinite presence.