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The new covenantThe nevv covenant
The new covenant, or the saints portion A treatise unfolding the all-sufficiency of God, and mans uprightness, and the covenant of grace. delivered in fourteen sermons upon Gen. 17. 1. 2. Whereunto are adjoined four sermons upon Eccles. 9.1. 2. 11. 12. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ John Preston. Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.The nevv covenant, or the saints portion A treatise vnfolding the all-sufficiencie of God, and mans uprightnes, and the covenant of grace. delivered in fourteene sermons vpon Gen. 17. 1. 2. Wherevnto are adioyned foure sermons vpon Eccles. 9.1. 2. 11. 12. By the late faithfull and worthie minister of Iesus Christ Iohn Preston. Dr. in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiestie, maister of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by I. Dawson for Nicolas Bourne, 1629
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But,1 you will say, though this be something to have my soul filled with comfort thus; yet there are many necessities, many uses, that I have of other things.
But,1 you will say, though this be something to haue my soule filled with comfort thus; yet there are many necessities, many vses, that I haue of other things.
- 1Ob.
Therefore,1 I will go yet further. Do thou consider the Lord, what he is; go through all his attributes, consider his almighty power, consider his great wisdom, his counsel, and his understanding, consider his great goodness, and his truth, and kindness, consider his patience, and his long suffering, &c. all these are thine. My Beloved, God is not known in the world, we consider not aright what he saith, when he saith, I will be thy portion, I will be thy God; for so he saith, I my self am my beloveds, 2and my well-beloved is mine. Now to have the Lord himself, is more than if he should give thee all the Kingdoms of the earth; consider this, the power of God is thine, to work all thy works for thee, to make passage for thee, when thou art in a strait, to bring thy enterprises to pass, to deliver thee out when thou art in any affliction, out of which the creature is not able to deliver thee. Think what it is to have an interest in Gods almighty power, and think this is one part of thy portion: the Lord himself is thine, and all his power is thine. Consider, likewise, his wisdom, if thou need counsel in any difficult ⟨p. 79⟩