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Title:  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.
Author: Preston, John, 1587-1628.
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So Moses went. A strange kinde of errand; as if one should goe and tell the great Turke, that the God of the Christians hath sent to let them goe: but yet Moses goeth; and all that comforted him, was the revealing of this Name.Now apply this to your selves; when you are in any distresse, know that he that made the hea∣vens and the earth, can give a being to all these things: Esay 50.10.Isai. 50.10.Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servants, that walketh in darknesse, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his GOD. He that walketh in darknesse, and hath no light; let that be thy case, that every thing is desperate, thou seest not a jot of light, nor spark of hope, yet trust in the Name of Iehovah, hee can make light, when there is none; a man that hath no grace in his heart, let him trust in Ieho∣vah, that saith in his heart, I would I could be rid of such a lust, and that I could keep holy the Sab∣bath, but I have nothing in me, my heart is emp∣tie of all; (this is the complaint often even of those that have grace:) why, if there be no light, no grace, yet he can work it; and so Paul applyes that in Gen. 1. there was darknesse and no light,Gen. 1. to himselfe and them, in 2 Cor. 4.5.2 Cor. 4.5.He that com∣manded light to shine out of darknesse, &c. I, sayes he, and we Gentiles were in darknesse, and had no light; yet God commanded light to shine into our hearts, and into mine, the darkest of all the rest. So learne to apply the same to thy selfe; he that is in darknesse, and hath no light, yet let him 0