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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 1: OF GODS ALL-SUFFICIENCY.Part › Sermon 1: OF GODS ALL-SVFFICIENCY.
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.
The first is from the connection, and we will begin with that, because it is a preparation to the other two: In that the Lord useth this as an argument to Abraham, I am All-sufficient, therefore walk before me, and be thou perfect; We may observe this; that The cause of all departure from God,1 of all unevenness in our ways towards God,2 is from hence, that we do not think God to be All-sufficient.
The first is from the connexion, and we will begin with that, because it is a preparation to the other two: In that the Lord vseth this as an argument to Abraham, I am All-sufficient, therefore walke before me, and be thou perfect; We may obserue this; that The cause of all departure from God,1 of all vnevennesse in our wayes towards God,2 is from hence, that we doe not thinke God to be All-sufficient.
- 1Doct. 1.
- 2Doubting of Gods All-sufficiency, the cause of departure from God.Doubting of Gods All-sufficience, the cause of departure from God.
As on the other side, the cause of all our sincerity and perfectness, ariseth hence, that we do apprehend him to be All-sufficient. This you see evidently ⟨p. 5⟩ariseth from the words; for thence is the force of the Argument, I am All-sufficient, therefore walk before me, and be perfect. My Beloved, it is evident, that the cause of every mans keeping off from God, the cause of his unevenness after he is come in to him, is from hence, that men think not God, to be All-sufficient; for if a man had enough in the Lord, he would never go out from him; but because he wants something, he desires something that is not in him, or he fears something, that he thinks he cannot keep off from him: hence it comes to pass that he steppes out from God, he goeth out of the ways of his Commandments. And therefore I say, the cause of every mans departure from God, the cause of his keeping off from God, or of his unevenness in the ways of God, is from hence, that he thinks not God to be All-sufficient; and this you shall see in three sorts of men.