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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,1 this Covenant, it brings only a servile fear, and an enmity; for when a man looks upon the Author of this Covenant, & he hears no more but the Law, and what it requires; he looks upon God as a hard Master, as an enemy; again, he looks upon his Law as a hard and cruel Law, as a heavy yoke, as an unsupportable bondage, and therefore he hates ⟨p. 73⟩i•, and wishes there were no such law; he runs from it, as a Bond-slave runs from his master, as far as it is in his power. This is that which is said Gal. 4.2 Hagar gendereth to bondage: that is, the Covenant of works it begets bond-men and slaves, and not sons, and freemen: and likewise that, Heb. 12. 18.3 saith the Apostle, You are not come to Mount Sinai, to the burning of fire, to clouds, to darkness, and tempest, to the sound of a Trumpet, so that Moses himself did quake and tremble. That is, when a man looks upon this Covenant of works, it causeth in him a fear, and an enmity: that is the 2. difference.
Secondly,1 this Couenant, it brings onely a seruile feare, and an enmitie; for when a man lookes vpon the Author of this Couenant, & he heares no more but the Law, and what it requires; he lookes vpon God as a hard Master, as an enemy; againe, he lookes vpon his Law as a hard and cruell Law, as a heauy yoke, as an vnsupportable bondage, and therefore he hates ⟨p. 73⟩i•, and wishes there were no such law; he runs from it, as a Bond-slaue runnes from his master, as far as it is in his power. This is that which is said