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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 there must be a path: for in particular Journeys, as from Thebes to Athens, there is a straight path-way to walk to it, &c. These particulars we will express to you in this course of a Christian life.
And there must be a path: for in particular Iourneys, as from Thebes to Athens, there is a straight path-way to walke to it, &c. These particulars we will expresse to you in this course of a Christian life.
First; I say, there must be a place to which a man goes,1 terminus ad quem, as we call it, and that is to grace, we travail to grace, we travail to the service, and glory of God, and we travail to salvation, these I find in the Scripture to be the ends, and the aims, and the scope, and mark, at which every man is to look in his Journey, in the course of his life: Labour to grow in grace, which enableth us to serve God, without which we can do nothing: Labour also, when you have it to come to the fruits, and operations, and effects of it; that is, to spend your time in doing some thing that may tend to Gods glory, and service. And last of all, look at the reward, look at salvation, ⟨p. 185⟩which is the end of that Journey, there is no question of the two former, that the end is grace, and righteousness; there is more question of the latter, whether a man may make salvation, and the recompense of reward, an end, a mark, and scope, to which he travails: but all these are our ends you shall see Act. 26. 18. Paul 2is sent to preach to the people; and this is the scope of his preaching, he was sent to open their eyes, that they might turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, that they might receive the forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in Christ. Mark it, that they may turn from darkness to light, there you see the scope is light; because, without light, a man cannot see his way, Grace helps a man in his Journey, as light doth: the next thing is, from the power of Satan unto God; That is; from living in bondage to Satan, to serve God, to do that which stands to his glory, and advancement, and then lastly, that they may receive forgiveness, and inheritance amongst them that are sanctified by faith in me; there is the reward: for a mans aim is likewise that he might receive the inheritance, that he might be saved, and have heaven in the end. So likewise you find it expressed