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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 4 Fourthly, then whatsoever thy condition be, whatsoever strait thou art in, be not discouraged, but seek to him;1 that is the ground of your prayers. You know the Lords prayer is concluded with this: For thine is thy kingdom, power and glory, for ever and ever. As if that were the ground of all the petitions that went before. So if the Lord be Almighty, and hath an Almighty ⟨p. 199⟩power, then in the most desperate case, when there is no hope or help in the creature, that you can discern, yet then pray, and pray strongly an confidently as men full of hope, to obtain what they desire.
Vse 4 Fourthly, then whatsoever thy condition bee, whatsoever strait thou art in, be not discouraged, but seeke to him;1 that is the ground of your prayers. You know the Lords prayer is concluded with this: For thine is thy kingdome, power and glory, for ever and ever. As if that were the ground of all the petitions that went before. So if the Lord bee Allmighty, and hath an Allmighty ⟨p. 199⟩power, then in the most desperate case, when there is no hope or helpe in the creature, that you can discerne, yet then pray, and pray strongly an confidently as men full of hope, to obtaine what they desire.
- 1Seek and pray to him in all straits with confidence.Seeke and pray to him in all straits with confidence.
And remember this for your comfort: At that time, when you are in affliction, and in so great a strait, that you are hedged about, and no hope, no possibility to evade, that is the time that the Lord will show forth his power; for a man is never discouraged but in this case; I have seen it by many particular experiments: when the case hath been desperate, when there hath been no hope, yet when God hath been sought to by fasting and prayer, there hath been alteration above all thought, according to that expression used,