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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
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.
First; This should lead us to a further knowledge §1of the insufficiency of the Creature.1 (That we will first do, and after it we will add but a trial to all that we have said, to see whether we be indeed persuaded of that All-sufficiency, that is in God, and of that vanity, and emptiness that is in the Creature; And this will be our business at this time.) If God be All-sufficient, and that exclusively, as I showed before, then there is an emptiness, ⟨p. 136⟩a vanity, and an indigence in the Creature, there is nothing in it: and to make this good to you, consider;
First; This should leade vs to a further knowledge §1of the insufficiencie of the Creature.1 (That we will first doe, and after it we will adde but a tryall to all that we haue said, to see whether we be indeede perswaded of that All-sufficiencie, that is in God, and of that vanitie, and emptines that is in the Creature; And this will be our busines at this time.) If God be All-sufficient, and that exclusiuely, as I shewed before, then there is an emptines, ⟨p. 136⟩a vanitie, and an indigence in the Creature, there is nothing in it: and to make this good to you, consider;
- 1The insufficiency of the Creature proved.The insufficiencie of the Creature proved.
First; That the Creature is made by some thing else without it.