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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.
Use 2 Secondly, If this be so, then labour to make use of this power of his.1 Why is this Attribute revealed to you? is it not for this, that men might make use of this power of his? Then let every man consider with himself, what he hath need of, what strait he is in, what business he would have done: remember that GOD is Almighty, and is able to bring it to pass; be it poverty in your estates, or debts, which a man is not able to overwrestle, if there be a blemish in your names, and you cannot tell how to have it healed, or any weakness in your body; and which is more than all this, if there be a lust that ye cannot overcome, a temptation which ye cannot be rid of, if there be a deadness of spirit in you, and indisposedness to holy duties, and ye cannot tell how to get life and quickening; remember that there is an Almighty power revealed for that end, and it is ⟨p. 192⟩our parts to make use of it: though it be an hereditary disease in thee, (now you know an hereditary disease is that which we have from our parents,) though thou hast such a disease, such a strong lust, yet think with thy self, the Lord is able to heal this. Jam. 4.6. A place named before, But he giveth more grace, &c. As if he should say: when he had told them of the lusts that fight in their members, this objection comes in; Alas, we are not able to master these lusts. It is true, saith the Apostle, the lusts that are in us, do lust against the spirit, as naturally as the stone descends downward: but how should we heal them, say you? How? The Scripture giveth more grace, that is, there is an omnipotent power which can heal all this.
Vse 2 Secondly, If this be so, then labour to make use of this power of his.1 Why is this Attribute revealed to you? is it not for this, that men might make use of this power of his? Then let every man consider with himselfe, what he hath neede of, what strait he is in, what businesse he would have done: remember that GOD is Allmighty, and is able to bring it to passe; be it poverty in your estates, or debts, which a man is not able to overwrastle, if there be a blemish in your names, and you cannot tell how to have it healed, or any weaknesse in your body; and which is more than all this, if there be a lust that ye cannot overcome, a temptation which ye cannot be rid of, if there be a deadnesse of spirit in you, and indisposednesse to holy duties, and yee cannot tell how to get life and quickening; remember that there is an Allmighty power revealed for that end, and it is