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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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himselfe, who is, as it were, come from heaven, and hath revealed many things unto us, and hath declared his will, what he would have us to doe, as to Moses upon Mount Sinai, and hee would have done it to this day, but that our weaknesse cannot endure the mightinesse and greatnesse of his Majestie, but would say, as the people did; Let not the Lord speake to us any more lest we die, but let MOSES, let him send his messengers, let him speake no more. Againe, the Spirit whereby the Prophets and Apostles spake to us, was it not sent from heaven?Againe, suppose one should come from either of those two places, would you beleeve him? It might be a false relation, would you beleeve him without further ground? But it is a direct answer which our Saviour giveth to this question, Luke 16. the two last verses,Luke 16. it was the objection of Dives, if there came one from the dead againe, they would beleeve it; Abraham answers, They have Moses and the Prophets, and if they will not be∣leeve them, they will not beleeve, though one should come from the dead: as if he should say, these car∣ry greater evidence in them, they have more power to confirme the truth that they delivered, that it came from the great God of heaven and earth, than if a man should arise from the dead, if we consider the many miracles which they did, and holy life which they led. But, if you will say, that, indeed for the decla∣ring of things, and for the confirmring of truths, there is more evidence in these, than if one did 0