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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.
Whence else are also those deceits, lies, and shiftings, to make things fair with men, when they know that God is offended with it, who seeth all things.
Whence else are also those deceits, lyes, and shiftings, to make things faire with men, when they know that God is offended with it, who seeth all things.
What is the reason that men are so sensible of outward shame, more than of secret sins; and care so much what men think of them, and speak of them, and not what God sees or knows? Doth not this declare that men think as those Atheists of whom Job speaks, Job 22. and do they not conceive in some degree, as those do, as if GOD did not descend beneath the circle of the heavens to the earth, 1and his eyes were barred by the curtains of the night, that he did not take notice of the ways of men; and look how men do this in a greater measure, so much greater Atheism they have.
What is the reason that men are so sensible of outward shame, more than of secret sinnes; and care so much what men thinke of them, and speake of them, and not what God sees or knows? Doth not this declare that men think as those Atheists of whom Iob speakes, Iob 22. and doe they not conceive in some degree, as those doe, as if GOD did not descend beneath the circle of the heavens to the earth, 1and his eyes were barred by the curtaines of the night, that he did not take notice of the wayes of men; and looke how men doe this in a greater measure, so much greater Atheisme they have.