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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.
Beloved,1 I cannot deny but he may, (for we must not take away the righteousness from those that are perfect, whilst we seek to exclude those that are hypocrites and unsound-hearted, and therefore I say) I deny not that there may be many relapses into the same sin, though the heart be perfect and sincere; and therefore to show you clearly the difference, we must spend a little time in this point.2 There are these four differences between the turning again of a man whose heart is unsound, and between the relapses that are incident to a man whose heart is perfect with God.
Beloued,1 I cannot deny but he may, (for we must not take away the right•ousnes from those that are perfect, whilest wee seeke to exclude those that are hypocrites and vnsound-hearted, and therefore I say) I deny not that there may be many relapses into the same sinne, though the heart be perfect and sincere; and therefore to shew you cleerely the difference, wee must spend a little time in this point.2 There are these foure differences between the turning againe of a man whose heart is vnsound, and betweene the relapses that are incident to a man whose heart is perfect with God.
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- 24. Differences between the relapses of sound and unsound-hearted men.4. Differences betweene the relapses of sound and vnsound-hearted men.
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