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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.
Again, if we think him to be All-sufficient, when we loose any particular means, it is but the scattering of a beam, it is but the breaking of a Bucket, when the Sun and the fountain is the same. Why should we be troubled at it? If we did think him to be All-sufficient, when one means is broken, cannot he find out another, if he be All-sufficient? When he said to Paul, that all the souls with him should be safe, you see, there were divers means, all were not able to swim to the shore, and the Ship was not able to bring them to shore, but yet, by broken boards, and by one means, and another, all got to the shore; So the Lord brings things to pass in a strange manner, sometimes one way, sometimes another, he breaks in pieces many times the Ship, that, we think, should bring us to shore, ⟨p. 168⟩but casts us on such boards as we did not expect; so he doth in the means both good and evil, somewhat comes in, and brings us help that we never thought of. An enemy comes in and doth us hurt, that we never dreamed of, and those, that we had our eye fixed upon, it may be, do neither of them.
Againe, if we thinke him to be All-sufficient, when we loose any particular means, it is but the scattering of a beame, it is but the breaking of a Bucket, when the Sunne and the fountaine is the same. Why should we be troubled at it? If we did thinke him to be All-sufficient, when one meanes is broken, cannot he finde out another, if he be All-sufficient? When he said to Paul, that all the soules with him should be safe, you see, there were divers meanes, all were not able to swim to the shore, and the Ship was not able to bring them to shore, but yet, by broken boards, and by one meanes, and another, all got to the shore; So the Lord brings things to passe in a strange manner, sometimes one way, sometimes another, he breakes in peeces many times the Ship, that, we thinke, should bring vs to shore, ⟨p. 168⟩but casts vs on such boards as we did not expect; so he doth in the meanes both good and evill, somewhat comes in, and brings vs helpe that we never thought of. An enemy comes in and doth vs hurt, that we never dreamed of, and those, that we had our eye fixed vpon, it may be, doe neither of them.