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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.
And first from the Connection, I am God All-sufficient; therefore walk before me, and be thou perfect (I will but touch it, because I handled the negative part of it at large.)
And first from the Connexion, I am God All-sufficient; therefore walke before me, and be thou perfect (I will but touch it, because I handled the negatiue part of it at large.)
This we may observe, that Every man is more or less perfect,1 as he is more or less persuaded of Gods All-sufficiency.2
This we may obserue, that Every man is more or lesse perfect,1 as he is more or lesse perswaded of Gods All-sufficiencie.2
- 1Doct.
- 2Men are more or less perfect, as they are persuaded of Gods All-sufficiency.Men are more or lesse perfect, as they are perswaded of Gods All-sufficiencie.
You see, that is made the ground of our perfect walking with God, that we believe him to be All-sufficient, and therefore, I say, as our persuasion of that is more or less, so every man more or less is perfect with God; That is; Look how a mans faith in Gods promises, and in his providence, is more or less, look how he hath found, by his experience, God to be more sufficient to him, or less, so is every mans walking with God more or less perfect.