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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.
Before; we delivered to you certain properties or adjuncts, which are not disjoined from this sincerity and integrity of heart: That which we have now to do, is to show you the effects of it,1 what operation it hath in the heart.
BEfore; we deliuered to you certaine properties or adjuncts, which are not disjoyned from this sincerity and integrity of heart: That which wee haue now to doe, is to shew you the effects of it,1 what operation it hath in the heart.
- 1Effects of sincerity.
First,1 you shall find this, to be one proper effect of it, that it teacheth a man to exalt God in all his ways, to lift up GOD in all his ways, above himself, above his own ends, above any thing that tends to his own happiness: for indeed herein is sincerity of heart seen, when a man prefers God before himself in all things: for hollowness and unsoundness of ⟨p. 36⟩heart is in this, when one prefers himself before God: it is a sure rule, and it is practised by all the Saints,2 which you have Psal. 148. 13, Thy Name, O Lord, (saith the Prophet there) is only to be exalted. The meaning is this, when a man hath any business to do, when he hath any design or project in his thoughts, he is not to think how he shall advance himself, or any end of his own, but, (saith he) O LORD, thy Name only, thy Name only is to be exalted. Such an expression you shall find,