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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.
Again, What is the reason that men are carried away with the present, as Aristotle calls it, [Greek or Hebrew], this same very (nunc) doth transport a man from the ways of virtue to vice, that they are too busy about the body, and are careless of the immortal soul, that they suffer that to lye, like a forlorn prisoner, and to starve within them? Would you do so, if you did believe that there is such a God, that made the soul, to whom it must return and give an account, and live with him for ever?
Againe, What is the reason that men are carried away with the present, as Aristotle cals it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, this same very (nunc) doth transport a man from the wayes of vertue to vice, that they are too busie about the body, and are carelesse of the immortall soule, that they suffer that to lye, like a forlorne prisoner, and to sterve within them? Would you doe so, if you did beleeve that there is such a God, that made the soule, to whom it must returne and give an account, and live with him for ever?
Again, what is the reason that men do seek so for the things of this life, are so careful in building houses, gathering estates, and preparing for themselves here such goodly mansions for their bodies, and spend no time to adorn the soul? (when yet these do but grace us amongst men, and are only for present use) and look not for those things which commend the soul to God, and regard not eternity in which the soul must live? I say, what is the reason of this, if there be not some grounds of secret Atheism in men?
Againe, what is the reason that men doe seeke so for the things of this life, are so carefull in building houses, gathering estates, and preparing for themselves here such goodly mansions for their bodies, and spend no time to adorne the soule? (when yet these doe but grace us amongst men, and are only for present use) and looke not for those things which commend the soule to God, and regard not eternity in which the soule must live? I say, what is the reason of this, if there be not some grounds of secret Atheisme in men?