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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.
for the price of the high calling of God in Christ, there you see that the aim that Paul had in following hard to the mark, you see there was a mark that he aimed at, and that he had expressed before to be found in the righteousness that is in Christ, and, ⟨p. 186⟩saith he, that I might obtain the price of the high calling, the price (that is) the wages; as a man that runs a race, there is a price propounded to him, and when he hath finished the race, he obtains it, saith he, this is one of my ends to obtain the price:1 so it is said of Moses, Heb. 11. he had respect to the recompense of reward. So, my Beloved, in the journey you must make this account, you travail towards grace, that is the scope that you aim at, again, your end is to serve God, to seek his glory, that all your actions may tend to it, and lastly, that you might be saved, that you might have the inheritance with the Saints.
for the price of the high calling of God in Christ, there you see that the ayme that Paul had in following hard to the marke, you see there was a marke that he aymed at, and that he had expressed before to be found in the righteousnesse that is in Christ, and, ⟨p. 186⟩sayth he, that I might obtaine the price of the high calling, the price (that is) the wages; as a man that runs a race, there is a price propounded to him, and when he hath finished the race, he obtaines it, sayth he, this is one of my ends to obtaine the price:1 so it is said of Moses, Heb. 11. he had respect to the recompence of reward. So, my Beloved, in the journey you must make this account, you travaile towards grace, that is the scope that you ayme at, againe, your end is to serue God, to seeke his glory, that all your actions may tend to it, and lastly, that you might be saved, that you might haue the inheritance with the Saints.