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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
Part › Sermon 1: OF GODS ALL-SUFFICIENCY.Part › Sermon 1: OF GODS ALL-SVFFICIENCY.
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 young man, in the Gospel, would never have gone away sad,1 if he had thought God had been All-sufficient: but he thought, when his riches were taken away, that some what was taken from him, that belonged to his happiness, that he could not have been to well without it. Again, Abraham, on the other side, would never have been willing to have offered Isaac, if he had not thought ⟨p. 23⟩that God was All-sufficient: as we see Heb. 11. 19.2 It is said there, that, though I sack were the son of the promise, yet he willingly offered him; why? for he thought God was able to raise him from the dead again, from whence he also after a sort received him: As he received him from Sarahs dead womb, so he thought, he might be raised again from the dead ashes. What was the reason that Paul served the Lord with a perfect heart? You see in 1 Tim. 4. 10.3 that he trusted in God, and therefore (saith he) we labour, and suffer rebuke; those are the two parts of new obedience, (to do, and to suffer) and therefore, saith he, we do it, because we trust in the living God: that is. We trust in him for all things: I believe him to be Almighty, and All-sufficient, every way, both to defend me from all evil, and also to provide all good things for me, and therefore I serve him, and labour in his service, and suffer rebuke. What was the reason, on the other side, that Demas turned from the Lord? was it not, because he thought there was not enough in him? and therefore, saith the Text, he embraced this present world: and therefore, (Beloved) the way to keep our hearts perfect with God, is to consider well the great power of God, and the great goodness of God, for in these two his All-sufficiency to wards us consists; consider his might•• power, and say thus, with thy self, he is able to do all things for me; consider, withal, the greatness of his goodness, and mercy, and say, he is my father, he is willing to do all things for me Indeed, that conclusion we should set down