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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.
First;1 Because the new Adam should otherwise not be so effectual as the old; the new Adam should not be so powerful to communicate grace and life, as the old Adam is to instill corruption and sin; for the sin, that hath been conveyed to us by the first Adam, hath an integrity in it, it hath gone over the whole soul, there is a whole body of death, that hath possessed us; Now should there not be in those redeeming actions by Christ a contrary integrity, and perfection, a throughout holiness, as I may call it? The plaster then ⟨p. 215⟩should be narrower then the sore, and the remedy should be inferior to the disease. Beloved, you know, a leprosy is gone all over, except the holiness went all over too from top to toe, I say, there would not be an answerableness in the second Adam, he should not be able to do as much good, as the first was able to do hurt.
First;1 Because the new Adam should otherwise not be so effectuall as the old; the new Adam should not be so powerfull to communicate grace and life, as the old Adam is to instill corruption and sinne; for the finne, that hath beene conveyed to vs by the first Adam, hath an integritie in it, it hath gone over the whole soule, there is a whole bodie of death, that hath possessed vs; Now should there not be in those redeeming actions by Christ a contrary integritie, and perfection, a throughout holines, as I may call it? The plaister then ⟨p. 215⟩should be narrower then the sore, and the remedy should be inferior to the disease. Beloved, you know, a leprosie is gone all over, except the holinesse went all over too from top to toe, I say, there would not be an answerablenesse in the second Adam, he should not be able to doe as much good, as the first was able to doe hurt.
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