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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
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.
The fifth is taken from the combination and connection which is among the creatures, that dependence they have one upon another; men cannot live without beasts to feed them, the beasts cannot live without grass to nourish them, that cannot be maintained without the influence of the heavens to nourish it; which subordination you shall see set down, Hos. 2. 21. ⟨p. 75⟩I will hear the heavens, and the heavens shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the corn. Whence we may reason thus: Either this was done by accident, or by providence; not by accident, for so you may as well say, that a multitude of letters cast together by chance, can make a History or Poem, as that this order, this connection, and dependence of the creatures, should come to pass by accident▪ and if it be not by accident, then it is by providence; for this can no more be done without providence, than in a History or Poem, there can be a dependence of one word or sentence upon another, without the art of wit and reason in him that composed it.
The fifth is taken from the combination and connexion which is among the creatures, that dependence they have one upon another; men cannot live without beasts to feede them, the beasts cannot live without grasse to nourish them, that cannot bee maintained without the influence of the heavens to nourish it; which subordination you shall see set down, Hos. 2. 21. ⟨p. 75⟩I will heare the heavens, and the heavens shall heare the earth, and the earth shall heare the corne. Whence wee may reason thus: Either this was done by accident, or by providence; not by accident, for so you may as well say, that a multitude of letters cast together by chance, can make a History or Poem, as that this order, this connexion, and dependence of the creatures, should come to passe by accident▪ and if it be not by accident, then it is by providence; for this can no more bee done without providence, than in a Historie or Poem, there can be a dependence of one word or sentence upon another, without the art of wit and reason in him that composed it.