Life Eternall Or, A Treatise of the Knowledge of the Divine Essence and Attributes, Volume 1

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E[lizabeth]. P[urslowe]. and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne at the Royall Exchange, and by Rapha Harford in Pater-noster Row in Queenes-head Alley, at the signe of the Gilt Bible., 1634 - 379 pages
 

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Page 170 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 33 - The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow : to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as are of a right conversation.
Page 77 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? . . . Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. . . . All nations before him are as nothing; and they...
Page 82 - Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them : for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
Page 63 - Chrift hath. redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us : for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree : i4.
Page 125 - For of him, and through him, and for him are all things : to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be honour and glory for evermore.
Page 21 - In this description, faith emerges, not as prostration on the road to Damascus, but as reason elevated. It enables us to see existing truths exactly as a telescope reveals new stars: . . . and therefore they are said to be revealed, not because they were not before, as if the revealing of them gave a being unto them; but, even as a new light in the night discovers to us that which we did not see before, and as a prospective glasse reveales to the eye, that which we could not see before, and by its...
Page 116 - ... every Colony: Therefore Voted, That they have in the most insolent Manner too long affronted this People, and...
Page 106 - vill be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burthens of the Egyptians.

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