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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.
The second is, it is Folly; Folly is a stupidity, when stupidity possesseth the soul of a man, that it is not able to judge of things that are presented to him, that is folly, so, saith he, I found this is jollity and carnal mirth, it breeds stupor, and takes away all taste and relish from me, that as a man that tastes sweet things, is not able to find the relish of his Beer or Meat; so, saith he, when I had tasted of jollity, and carnal mirth, it caused me to disrelish all things: for that is the disposition of folly, when it takes away the sense that we should have of other things, when it stupefieth a man; stupidity and folly we express one by another. Last of all; What doth it? That is, it passeth away like as music, there is nothing left, it goes and leaves nothing behind it, yea, it leaves sadness, if any thing, and sin behind it, the thing passeth away in a moment, but the sin remains, and continues, This is his censure of that part, namely, carnal mirth and jollity.
The second is, it is Folly; Folly is a stupiditie, when stupiditie possesseth the soule of a man, that it is not able to judge of things that are presented to him, that is folly, so, sayth he, I found this is jollitie and carnall mirth, it breeds stupor, and takes away all taste and relish from me, that as a man that tasts sweete things, is not able to finde the relish of his Beere or Meate; so, sayth he, when I had tasted of jollitie, and carnall mirth, it caused me to difrelish all things: for that is the disposition of folly, when it takes away the sense that we should haue of other things, when it stupifieth a man; stupiditie and folly we expresse one by another. Last of all; What doth it? That is, it passeth away like as musicke, there is nothing left, it goes and leaues nothing behinde it, yea, it leaues sadnes, if any thing, and sinne behinde it, the thing passeth away in a moment, but the sinne remaines, and continues, This is his censure of that part, namely, carnall mirth and jollitie.
Then he comes to the rest, which I will but name;1 Then, saith he, I gave my self to wine, to