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Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant…Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant…
Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant and lively description of spiritual death and life. III. The doctrine of self-denial. IV. Upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, John Preston, Doctor of Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty; master of Emanuel College, and sometime preacher of Lincolns Inn.Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant and lively description of spirituall death and life. III. The doctrine of selfe-deniall. IV. Vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Doctor of Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie; master of Emanuel Colledge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Thomas for Michael Sparke, 1633
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And this is one thing, that it's not enough for a man to be in Christ, to take the privileges that belong to him, but there is a certain qualification required that must be done at that ⟨p. 309⟩time, when the Covenant is renewed: And this is one, to have the graces thus acted.
And this is one thing, that it's not enough for a man to bee in Christ, to take the priviledges that belong to him, but there is a certaine qualification required that must be done at that ⟨p. 309⟩time, when the Covenant is renewed: And this is one, to have the graces thus acted.
Secondly, there must be a new Reconciliation. For the Saints, those that are within the covenant, those that are regenerate men, (you must mark it well, for it's a point of much use) when they commit sins against God, the guilt of their sins is retained: though they are within the covenant, and are not cut off from Christ, but are in him; yet (I say) when they have sinned, the guilt of that sin continues, and is continued till they be reconciled and renewed by faith and repentance; as you see it was with David: 1Nathan would not have said when he came to him, Thy sins are forgiven thee, if there had not been a new thing, if there had not been a thing done at that time; and therefore it intimates so much, that before his sin was not forgiven: that is, the Lord was angry with him. You must know therefore this, that when a regenerate man sins, there is only a particular guilt; the universal guilt of sins returns not, (for that would cut him quite off, that would put him absolutely into the state of damnation,) but it's a particular guilt, for every particular sin; that is, even as a father is pleased well with his son, and knows him to be his son, he is affected to him as to his son, yet he hath done such a particular action that hath offended him, and for that particular offence, he withdraws himself from him, he carries not himself to