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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.
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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.
11. This property or Attribute of immensity must needes be given to God, because his essence is infinite, which hath beene 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 bee: 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.
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12. You see see it by experience, and cannot deny ⟨p. 149⟩it, that his power is every where, he guides all things, he puts forth his power every where: Now in the Lord seeing there is no faculty as is in man, but whatsoever is in him, is himself; it cannot be, but that he himself must be in every place where he doth any thing. The fire may heat afar off, and so may the Sun, give light to the whole world, and yet abide in the firmament, because it hath a quality of heat, and light: but Almighty God is most simple, there is no composition in him, no quality, no executive power, but he is himself what he is, and therefore what he doth is done by himself immediately, immediatione suppositi, as the Schoolmen express it.