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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.
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.
On the other side;1 there is a fear that keeps us off from going out from G•d, and that is, the more ⟨p. 117⟩we believe this All-sufficiency, the more we believe that happiness is in him; the more we believe the riches of his mercy, and the abundance of his goodness, the more we fear to steppe out from him, to have our hearts estranged from him, to have our hearts sit loose. Now, the more we can believe this All-sufficiency, the more it takes away the first fear, and increaseth the second, it takes away the fear that keeps us from coming in to God, and it increaseth the fear that keeps us from going out from God. So much shall serve for this first, the All-sufficiency of God, in forgiving sin.
On the other side;1 there is a feare that keepes vs off from going out from G•d, and that is, the more ⟨p. 117⟩we beleeue this All-sufficiencie, the more we beleeue that happinesse is in him; the more we beleeue the riches of his mercy, and the abundance of his goodnesse, the more we feare to steppe out from him, to haue our hearts estranged from him, to haue our hearts sit loose. Now, the more we can beleeue this All-sufficiencie, the more it takes away the first feare, and increaseth the second, it takes away the feare that keepes vs from comming in to God, and it increaseth the feare that keepes vs from going out from God. So much shall serue for this first, the All-sufficiencie of God, in forgiuing sinne.
- 12. Fr•• going out from him.