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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, 1I say, it may be very well: for they ⟨p. 29⟩are things that no Minister in the world can teach you; we may propound them to you, and you may hear them seven years and seven; you may read the very same things in the Scriptures, and in other Books, a thousand times over, and yet, for all this, not understand them: It is the wisdom of God in a mystery, and they are the deep things of God: As a man may look on a Trade, and never see the mystery of it, he may look on artificial things, pictures, or any thing else, and yet not see the Art by which they are made; as a man may look on a Letter, and yet not understand the sense, something there is that he sees, and something that he sees not, not it enters not into his heart; (and therefore it is said, seeing they see not; which argueth that there is something that they see.) Thus there are some things, there is a wisdom of GOD, that an unsound-hearted man can never know, it can never enter into his heart: which wisdom therefore if thou hast, certainly thou art a perfect man.
B•loued, 1I say, it may be very well: for they ⟨p. 29⟩are things that no Minister in the world can teach you; we may propound them to you, and you may heare them seuen yeeres and seuen; you may reade the very same things in the Scriptures, and in other Bookes, a thousand times ouer, and yet, for all this, not vnderstand them: It is the wisdome of God in a mystery, and they are the deepe things of God: As a man may looke on a Trade, and neuer see the mystery of it, he may looke on artificiall things, pictures, or any thing else, and yet not see the Art by which they are made; as a man may looke on a Letter, and yet not vnderstand the sense, something there is that he sees, and something that he sees not, not it enters not into his heart; (and therefore it is said, seeing they see not; which argueth that there is something that they see.) Thus there are some things, there is a wisdome of GOD, that an vnsound-hearted man can neuer know, it can neuer enter into his heart: which wisdome therefore if thou hast, certainely thou art a perfect man.