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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.
Lastly,1 they see him in his ordinances, they see God in the preaching of the Word, they receive it not as the word of man, but, as it is indeed, the word of God: they see him in the Sacraments, for they are able to discern the Lords body, that is, they able to see Christ crucified, to esteem him, and to set that price upon him as they ought, and so they come prepared; this they are able to do, because they are pure: but when the heart is yet unsound and impure, they are not able to see God clearly; a sight and a knowledge they have, but it is another kind of knowledge. So much shall serve for that point.
Lastly,1 they see him in his ordinances, they see God in the preaching of the Word, they receiue it not as the word of man, but, as it is indeed, the word of God: they see him in the Sacraments, for they are able to discerne the Lords body, that is, they able to see Christ crucisied, to esteeme him, and to set that price vpon him as they ought, and so they come prepared; this they are able to doe, because they are pure: but when the heart is yet vnsound and impure, they are not able to see God cleerely; a sight and a knowledge they haue, but it is another kinde of knowledge. So much shall serue for that point.
- 14. In his Ordinances.
And I will make my Covenant, &c.
And I will make my Couenant, &c.
These words contain a further and a greater favour expressed to Abraham, then the former words do: it was a great mercy to him, to express thus much to him, I am all-sufficient, I am able to help thee, I am thy exceeding great reward, I am able to be a Sun and a Shield unto