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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.
Secondly, I will not make a temporary Covenant, but an everlasting Covenant, there shall be a mutual engagement between us, and it shall continue for ever, both to thy self and to thy posterity: in particular, it is added I will multiply thee exceedingly, that is but a branch of the Covenant, I will make thee a Father of many Nations, thou shalt have a Son, and his ⟨p. 71⟩children shall grow in number as the stars of heaven, and as the dust of the earth; that is but a particular: whence, this is the point that we have to observe, that God enters into Covenant with all those that are faithful.1
Secondly, I will not make a temporary Couenant, but an euerlasting Couenant, there shall be a mutuall ingagement betweene vs, and it shall continue for euer, both to thy selfe and to thy posterity: in particular, it is added I will multiply thee exceedingly, that is but a branch of the Couenant, I will make thee a Father of many Nations, thou shalt haue a Sonne, and his ⟨p. 71⟩children shall grow in number as the starres of heauen, and as the dust of the earth; that is but a particular: whence, this is the point that wee haue to obserue, that God enters into Couenant with all those that are faithfull.1
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For it was not with Abraham, as he was Abraham, but as he was a faithful man; and therefore all the faithful are reckoned to be the seed of Abraham. For the opening of this to you, which is one of the main points in Divinity, I will show you these five things:
For it was not with Abra•am, as he was Abraham, but as hee was a faithfull man; and therfore all the faithfull are reckoned to be the seede of Abraham. For the opening of this to you, which is one of the maine points in Diuinity, I will shew you these fiue things: