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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; the next to this is the ground: for a §3man must have some thing to hold him up,1 when he walks, the ground upon which he walks, is the time of this life in this world, the latitude of this life, that God hath afforded to every man, that is the field, as it were, that he walks in: we see in the world great variety of men, and variety of courses, that is the ground, the space allotted to him, he may walk whither he will, he may walk which way he pleaseth.
Againe; the next to this is the ground: for a §3man must haue some thing to hold him vp,1 when he walkes, the ground vpon which he walkes, is the time of this life in this world, the latitude of this life, that God hath afforded to every man, that is the field, as it were, that he walkes in: we see in the world great varietie of men, and varietie of courses, that is the ground, the space allotted to him, he may walke whither he will, he may walke which way he pleaseth.
- 1The ground.
But lastly (as there must be a term to which,§4 another from which,1 as there must be a distance, and a ground, so chiefly he, that walks must have a certain path, a certain way to walk in. In a wilderness, there is ground enough, but there is no path, but when you go to a certain place, there must be always a certain way, a certain high way, a path that leads to it: now the path that we have to walk in, you have it diversly expressed ⟨p. 190⟩