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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.
Answ. It is true in natural causes, and such causes as produce things only like to themselves, which are called univocal causes, (but I will not trouble you with that distinction) there the cause goes not beyond the effect: as fire begets fire, and it cannot but beget it, and it cannot go beyond it, for it is a natural cause, and produceth effects like to it self; So a Lion begets a Lion, because it is a natural cause.
Answ. It is true in naturall causes, and such causes as produce things onely like to themselves, which are called univocall causes, (but I will not trouble you with that distinction) there the cause goes not beyond the effect: as fire begets fire, and it cannot but beget it, and it cannot goe beyond it, for it is a naturall cause, and produceth effects like to it selfe; So a Lion begets a Lion, because it is a naturall cause.
But there are causes wherein it is not so; wherein you must not say, that there is no such ⟨p. 182⟩effect, and therefore the cause doth not go beyond it: that is, in voluntary causes, wherein the cause not work necessarily, but by the liberty of his will, and he may be able to do much more than he doth.
But there are causes wherein it is not so; wherein you must not say, that there is no such ⟨p. 182⟩effect, and therefore the cause doth not goe beyond it: that is, in voluntary causes, wherein the cause not worke necessarily, but by the liberty of his will, and he may be able to doe much more than he doth.