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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 Expression,1 that I find in Scripture, to set forth this perfection of heart, is, to do every thing in Gods sight: When thou hast an eye upon the Lord, as well as he hath an eye upon thee. So you shall find, 1 Cor. 2. As of sincerity in the •ight o• God, where the second is an explication o• the first, and so here, Walk before me, and be perfect: That is, if a man walk before God, and approve himself to him, he is a perfect man, for that shows the difference between perfection ⟨p. 235⟩and soundness of heart, […] the one is truly such as will […] trial, such as will endure even the eye of God himself, when that which is […] to the utmost trial; that is able to say •o God; Lord thou knowest mine Innocency, as David did, and Lord, I beseech thee, search m• reins, and my heart; when one […] say, as Hezekiah, Lord, thou knowest, that I have walked with an upright heart.
The last Expression,1 that I finde in Scripture, to set forth this perfection of heart, is, to doe every thing in Gods sight: When thou hast an eye vpon the Lord, as well as he hath an eye vpon thee. So you shall finde, 1 Cor. 2. As of sinceritie in the •ight o• God, where the second is an explication o• the first, and so here, Walke before mee, and be perfect: That is, if a man walke before God, and approue himselfe to him, he is a perfect man, for that shewes the difference betweene perfection ⟨p. 235⟩and soundnesse of heart, the one is truely such as will tryall, such as will endure even the eye of God himselfe, when that which is to the vrmost tryall; that is able to say o God; Lord thou knowest mine Innocency, as David did, and Lord, I beseech thee, search m reynes, and my heart; when one say, as Hezekiah, Lord, thou knowest, that I haue walked with an vpright heart.