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LIFE

ETERNALL

OR,

A TREATISE
Of the knowledge of the Di-
vine ESSENCE and
ATTRIBUTES.

Delivered in XVIII. SERMONS,
By the late Faithfull and Worthy
Minister of IESVS CHRIST,
IOHN PRESTON,

Doctor in Divinity, Chaplaine in ordinary to his
Majefty,Mafter of Emanuel College in Cambridge,
and fometimes Preacher of Lincolnes Inne.

The fourth Edition, Correaed.

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O waking and
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GOD, that no-
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debased or layd afide. Mofes and Cyrus devoted in their infancie to ruine and obfcurity, were by that eye and hand kept and advanced to highest honours and imployments for his Church. Some footsteps of which care and power, we have obferved,upon the birth and bringing forth to light of this Orphane, which, in relation to the painfull labour of him, who (as the Mother) brought it forth, and dyed in travell with it, wee thought might well be filed BENNONI, Sonne of my forrowes; But, when we faw the ftrength & holineffe imprinted on thechild by God the father ofit, wee doubted not to call it BENIAMIN, Sonne of the right

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are found already written and imprinted not with inke, but with the Spirit of the Living God: yea,and not onely written, but alfo by reason of the greatneffe of your birth, the Nobleneffe of your de portment in your countrie; known and read of all men. Such ingenuous fimplicity lodged in depth of wiledome: Holineffe of life fo fet in honour and esteeme, and immoueably fetled with evenneffe of walking in midft of all varieties: Such humility in height of parts: gratioufneffe of heart in greatneffe of minde, So rare,fixt, and happie a conjunction, in an houfe fo eminent, doth not fall out, without a generall obferva

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