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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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Thirdly. He is All-sufficient, to provide us whatsoever we need; so that no good thing shall be wanting to us.
Thirdly. He is All-sufficient, to provide vs whatsoever we neede; so that no good thing shall be wanting to vs.
These are the three parts of the Covenant, which we find set down in divers places;1 in Jer. 31. 34. Heb. 8. 9. 10. 16.2 But most clearly are they set down in Ezek. 36.3 Saith the Lord there; I will pour clean water upon you, you shall be clean, yea, from all your filthiness, and from all your Idols will I cleanse you. There is one part of the Covenant, that he will cleanse us from all our sins. That is; From the guilt, and the punishment of them. Secondly. A new heart will I give you, also a new spirit will I put into you, and I will take away your stony hearts out of your bodies, and I will give you a heart of flesh. There is the second part of the Covenant, consisting of Sanctification. The third is; You shall dwell in the Land that I gave to your Fathers, and I will call for Corn, and I will increase it, and I will lay no more famine upon you, and I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the Heathen. Here are the particulars set down; some are named for the rest; I will call for Corn and Wine, That is, For whatsoever you want. That is the third part of the Covenant. These are the three parts of the Covenant, which I shall spend this time in opening, and showing you, that God is sufficient in all, and to answer those objections that mens hearts have against his All-sufficiency: for