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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. I, but do you think that your faith is greater than the faith of Mary or Martha. Joh. 11.21. Lord, if thou hadst bin here my Brother had not died. So verse 32. If you observe their reasoning, you shall see, all this doubt was of his power. If thou hadst bin here, when he was sick, and when it was time, thou mightest have raised him: but now it is too late, he hath bin dead four days, and his body is putrefied. Here is no doubt of his good will: but all the question was of his power. And so it is with us: do not we do the same, and say with our selves, if this had been taken in time, it might have been done, but now the case is desperate? Why? is not the Lord as well able to help in desperate cases, if he be Almighty?
Answ. I, but doe you thinke that your faith is greater than the faith of Mary or Martha. Ioh. 11.21. Lord, if thou hadst bin here my Brother had not died. So verse 32. If you observe their reasoning, you shall see, all this doubt was of his power. If thou hadst bin here, when hee was sicke, and when it was time, thou mightest have raised him: but now it is too late, hee hath bin dead foure dayes, and his body is putrified. Here is no doubt of his good will: but all the question was of his power. And so it is with us: doe not we doe the same, and say with our selves, if this had beene taken in time, it might have beene done, but now the case is desperate? Why? is not the Lord as well able to helpe in desperate cases, if he be Allmighty?
Object. Yea, but these were but weak women, and we hope our faith may be stronger than theirs?
Object. Yea, but these were but weake women, and we hope our faith may be stronger than theirs?