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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.
But he adds further, fourthly, saith he, I found they gave me no rest neither day nor night;1 That is; All the while I was conversant in them, I was full of care, and trouble, and thoughts; whereas those that are vacant from such things are at rest, they have rest in the night, and in the day, but I have none; As if he should say, he that will be occupied in all things of this nature, he shall find a restlessness in his soul.
But he addes further, fourthly, sayth he, I found they gaue me no rest neither day nor night;1 That is; All the while I was conversant in them, I was full of care, and trouble, and thoughts; whereas those that are vacant from such things are at rest, they haue rest in the night, and in the day, but I haue none; As if he should say, he that will be occupied in all things of this nature, he shall finde a restlesnesse in his soule.
- 1Restless care.Restlesse care.
Fifthly; saith he, I found that I had my labour for my travail;1 this fore travail I had, and that was all that I had. As if he should say; I found no comfort to answer it, I found no fruit from them, I found certain labour, but uncertain refreshments from them: This I found, that they cost me much trouble, and pains, but when I came to enjoy the fruit of them, to receive comfort from them, then they failed me, then they deceived me. Moreover, saith he, I sound no happiness in them, no rest: for I was weary of my self, and of my life, and of all my labours, that I had wrought under the Sun: for how could he find that there, which was not there? for if God had ever sown any happiness in the Creature, he might have reaped it from the creature, but in all these things it was never sown: the Creature may give as much as is in it, but to give more is impossible. And therefore, saith he, I fought diligently to see, if there were such a thing there, but I found it not.