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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.
No:1 All the trial is in this, to trust in him alone: for if you did think him All-sufficient; why should you not do so? If he had but a part of sufficiency, and the creature had another part, you might join help with him; but since he is All-sufficient, you must be content with him alone. Put the case, he give you no pawn, as he did not to Abraham, the Text saith, he had not a foot of land in all his possession, and yet he believed; for he thought God was sufficient: Therefore when thou hast any thing to do, trust in him alone, and thou shalt then find it the best done: for when we trust in him most, then we pray best, and when we pray best, we speed best: and therefore we commonly find, when things are in the lowest condition, then it hath best success with us: because, by that means we are taught to go to him alone. To give you an instance of this, consider David and Jacob; I will show you but these two cases; you shall see it in David and Jacob.
No:1 All the tryall is in this, to trust in him alone: for if you did thinke him All-sufficient; why should you not doe so? If he had but a part of sufficiencie, and the creature had another part, you might joyne helpe with him; but since he is All-sufficient, you must be content with him alone. Put the case, he giue you no pawne, as he did not to Abraham, the Text sayth, he had not a foote of land in all his possession, and yet he beleeved; for he thought God was sufficient: Therefore when thou hast any thing to doe, trust in him alone, and thou shalt then finde it the best done: for when we trust in him most, then we pray best, and when we pray best, we speede best: and therefore we commonly finde, when things are in the lowest condition, then it hath best successe with vs: because, by that meanes we are taught to goe to him alone. To giue you an instance of this, consider David and Iacob; I will shew you but these two cases; you shall see it in David and Iacob.
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