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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.
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 ⟨p. 70⟩thee, to fill thee with all comfort, and to deliver thee from all evil: but yet this which is here added, is a mercy of a much higher nature, (saith the Lord) I will make my Covenant between me and thee; that is, I will not only tell thee what I am able to do, I will not only express to thee in general, that I will deal well with thee, that I have a willingness and ability to recompense thee, if thou walk before me, and serve me, and be perfect; but I am willing to enter into Covenant with thee, that is, I will bind my self, I will engage my self, I will enter into bond, as it were, I will not be at liberty any more, but I am willing even to make a Covenant, a compact and agreement with thee.1 I will make my▪ Covenant between me and thee: that is the general. You shall find it expressed more at large, Vers. 7. Moreover I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant, to be a GOD to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that is, as if he should say, First, I am not only willing, to make it with thee, but with thy seed.
These words containe a further and a greater fauour expressed to Abraham, then the former words doe: it was a great merc• to him, to expresse thus much to him, I am al-sufficient, I am able to helpe thee, I am thy exceeding great reward, I am able to be a Sunne▪ and a Shield vnto