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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.
The last is,1 as there is a length in this way, and a straightness in it, so there is a breadth in this way, there is a latitude, or breadth, a certain proportional breadth. The way to some man is broader then to others, and to the same man the way in some places is broader, in some narrower. The Jews way was narrower, then ours, there is a Christian liberty that hath enlarged this way, and made it somewhat broader to walk in: for, as the Christian liberty is more so likewise is the way broader: We have more liberty then the Jews had in many things, we are freed from that yoke of bondage, that strict observation of Mosaical Ceremonies: And so again, I say, one Christian hath a narrower way then another; that is; as a ⟨p. 204⟩man is subject to more temptations, to more occasions of sin, so must he make his way narrower, he may not walk in so broad a path as another. Again, the same man in some part of his way must choose a narrower way, in some he needs not; As, for example, a man that is subject to run out in such a recreation, another man may walk in a broader path in the use of that recreation, then he may: for to him it is an occasion, he is ready to be snared, and to be transported with it: one man is apt to be carried to drunkenness, if he see but the Wine, if he come but near it, he must not look on the Wine in the Cup; one man is quickly set on fire with incentives of lust with an object, he may not come so near, nor be so bold with them as another man may, one man is apt, if he come to such a company, to receive some hurt, to be entangled with them, he is apt to learn their ways, to go along with them, such a man may not be so bold to come near that company, as another may, that is not subject to that temptation, so that there is a breadth and a narrowness in these ways.
The last is,1 as there is a length in this way, and a straightnesse in it, so there is a breadth in this way, there is a latitude, or breadth, a certaine proportionall breadth. The way to some man is broader then to others, and to the same man the way in some places is broader, in some narrower. The Iewes way was narrower, then ours, there is a Christian liberty that hath inlarged this way, and made it somewhat broader to walke in: for, as the Christian libertie is more so likewise is the way broader: We haue more libertie then the Iewes had in many things, we are freed from that yoke of bondage, that strict observation of Mosaicall Ceremonies: And so againe, I say, one Christian hath a narrower way then another; that is; as a