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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.
To make this argument without doubt, consider what heaven is. Do you think, that there you shall have a worse condition than here? Here you have need of many comforts ⟨p. 190⟩and conveniences, it is a variegate appetite, that is, an appetite that is full of multiplicity: why, when you come to heaven, you do not lay aside your nature, but you desire still; and there you shall have none but GOD alone: so that there you shall be in a worse estate then here, if all these things were not to be found in the Lord: if there were not this variety in the Lord, it could not be, that in heaven you should be so happy. Here you need Sun, and Moon, and Stars, and a thousand other things, but there you shall have none, but I, saith he, will be Sun, and Moon, and all to you: and therefore he saith, that he will be all in all, which is the plural number, and signifies, all things, I will be [Greek or Hebrew].
To make this argument without doubt, consider what heaven is. Doe you thinke, that there you shall have a worse condition than here? Here you have need of many comforts ⟨p. 190⟩and conveniences, it is a variegate appetite, that is, an appetite that is full of multiplicity: why, when you come to heaven, you doe not lay aside your nature, but you desire still; and there you shall have none but GOD alone: so that there you shall bee in a worse estate then here, if all these things were not to bee found in the Lord: if there were not this variety in the Lord, it could not bee, that in heaven you should bee so happy. Here you need Sunne, and Moone, and Starres, and a thousand other things, but there you shall have none, but I, saith he, will bee Sunne, and Moone, and all to you: and therefore he saith, that hee will be all in all, which is the plurall number, and signifies, all things, I will be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.