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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.
After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my Laws into their minds, and in their hearts will I write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: If you compare it with that 2 Cor. 3. 2, 3. You are our Epistle written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men, in that you are manifest to be the Epistle of Christ, manifested by us, and written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in Tables of stone, but in the fleshy Tables of the heart. The meaning of it is this, when the heart is once softened,1 God sends his Spirit to write his Laws in the heart: which Metaphor will be expressed to you in these three things:
After those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Lawes into their mindes, and in their hearts will I write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: If you compare it with that 2 Cor. 3. 2, 3. You are our Epistle written in our hearts, which is vnderstood and read of all men, in that you are manifest to bee the Epistle of Christ, manifested by vs, and written, not with inke, but with the Spirit of the liuing God, not in Tables of stone, but in the fleshy Tables of the heart. The meaning of it is this, when the heart is once softned,1 God sends his Spirit to write his Lawes in the heart: which Me•aphor will bee expressed to you in these three things:
- 1The Metaphor of writing the Law in mans heart, explained 3. ways.The Metaphor of writing the Law in mans heart, explained 3. wayes.