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Sermons preached before his MajestySermons preached before his Maiestie
Sermons preached before his Majesty; and upon other special occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuel's support of sorrowful sinners. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.Sermons preached before his Maiestie; and vpon other speciall occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuels support of sorrowfull sinners. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Eliot's Court Press and R. Young for Leonard Greene of Cambridge, 1630
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Suppose a man bred and brought up in some hollow cave of the earth, having a house there built, and things necessary provided for him, and let him afterwards, (when he comes to a full use of understanding, and not before) be brought and set upon the face of the earth, and there let him see the glorious beauty of the Sun, and feel the heat of it, the force of the winds, and see the swiftness of the clouds, the ebbing and flowing of the seas, the apparelling of the earth; let him see the course of the heavens, and the fearful darkness that followeth upon the setting of the Sun; and after that the Moon and stars lighted up for the use of men and beasts; would he not wonder at all that, which we by reason of long assiduity make nothing of? It's a true rule, Sapientis est rerum manifestarum causas quaerere; a wise man enquireth after causes of manifest things, which another ⟨p. 67⟩man passeth over, and asketh not the ground and reason of.
Suppose a man bred and brought up in some hollow cave of the earth, hauing a house there built, and things necessarie provided for him, and let him afterwards, (when hee comes to a full use of understanding, and not before) bee brought and set upon the face of the earth, and there let him see the glorious beauty of the Sun, and feele the heat of it, the force of the windes, and see the swiftnesse of the clouds, the ebbing and flowing of the seas, the apparelling of the earth; let him see the course of the heavens, and the fearefull darkenesse that followeth upon the setting of the Sunne; and after that the Moone and stars lighted up for the use of men and beasts; would hee not wonder at all that, which we by reason of long assiduitie make nothing of? It's a true rule, Sapientis est rerum manifestarum causas quaerere; a wise man enquireth after causes of manifest things, which another ⟨p. 67⟩man passeth over, and asketh not the ground and reason of.
And in this inquisition, when he findeth that man is best of the creatures, and yet was not able to raise such a roof as the heavens, nor such a floor as the earth, he must needs conclude, that some one better and more able than man, was the maker of all these things, which man could not make of himself.