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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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Beloved, 1it is not so, it is the most profitable thing yo• can do for your own souls, to believe his All-sufficiency in forgiving sins, as well as his All-sufficiency in any thing besides: therefore we see in Rom. 6.2 concerning the abounding of grace (for so the objection stands) where sin hath abounded, there grace hath abounded much more. If mens sins be multiplied, grace and mercy shall be multiplied much more, and still outgo, and swallow them up. Shall we therefore sin that grace may abound, or because grace hath abounded? No, saith the Apostle, for the abundance of grace kills sin (for so the consequence stands) how shall we that are dead to sin, li•e any longer therein? 3So that his answer stands thus; Saith he, the abundance of grace doth not cause men to sin more: for it kills sin. And therefore, the more we believe this All-sufficiency in God to forgive sin, the more sin is killed in us; it is not enlarged by it, life is not given to sin by it, but we are made more dead to sin by it.
Beloved, 1it is not so, it is the most profitable thing yo• can doe for your owne soules, to beleeue his All-sufficiencie in forgiving sinnes, as well as his All-sufficiencie in any thing besides: therefore we see in Rom. 6.2 concerning the abounding of grace (for so the objection stands) where sinne hath abo•nded, there grace hath abounded much more. If mens sinnes be multiplied, grace and mercy shall be multiplied much more, and still outgoe, and swallow them vp. Shall we therefore sinne that grace may abound, or because grace hath abounded? No, sayth the Apostle, for the abundance of grace kils sinne (for so the consequence stands) how shall we that are dead to sinne, lie any longer therein?