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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.
I answer;1 It is true, it is not the end of the man, but it is the end of the course, as we say, it is not finis operantis, but it is finis operis; as a thief, that steals, his end is not that he should come to the gallows, but his end is to get profit to himself, but yet it is the scope of the work, though not of the workman; so I say in this case, a man that hath not this aim to serve God, to walk toward him, though he observe it not, his aim is destruction, that is the end of his work, that way he walks in leads down to the Chambers of death. So you see, First, there is an end, a term to which every man goes; And, secondly, there is a term from which every man comes.
I answer;1 It is true, it is not the end of the man, but it is the end of the course, as we say, it is not finis operantis, but it is finis operis; as a theefe, that steales, his end is not that he should come to the gallowes, but his end is to get profit to himselfe, but yet it is the scope of the worke, though not of the workman; so I say in this case, a man that hath not this ayme to serue God, to walke toward him, though he obserue it not, his ayme is destruction, that is the end of his worke, that way he walkes in leads downe to the Chambers of death. So you see, First, there is an end, a terme to which every man goes; And, secondly, there is a terme from which every man comes.