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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
Part › Sermon 4: THE FOURTH SERMON.Part › Sermon 4: THE FOVRTH SERMON.
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THE FOURTH SERMON.
THE FOVRTH SERMON.
GENESIS 17. 1. I am God All-sufficient.
Another Use, and deduction that we will draw from this point,1 that God is All-sufficient, is, to comfort us in regard of our imperfect obedience. 2We ought not to think, because we are not exact in keeping all the Commandments of God because we have much unevenness in our ways, because we are not able to keep the Rule so strictly, as we ought, that therefore God rejects us: for he is All-sufficient in himself, he needs not our righteousness, and therefore he can well bear with the imperfections of our righteousness. You shall see this use made of it, Act. 17. 24. 25. 3God that made all things, the world, and all that is therein, seeing he is Lord of heaven and ⟨p. 103⟩earth, he dwells not in Temples made with hands, neither is he worshipped with mens hands, as if he needed any thing. (Mark) he gives to all life, and breath, and all things. Thus the Apostle makes his argument; if God, saith he, made the world, and all things therein, if he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; then, when you do worship him, it is not because he hath any need of your worship, or any need of your righteousness, or of all that you can do, he hath enough, he doth it not as if he needed any thing: for he is All-sufficient.