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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, the Old was expressed in types, and shadows, and figures; as for example, they had the blood of Bulls and Goats, they had the washings of the body in clean water, they had offering of Incense, &c. by which things other things are meant, as, namely, the d•a•h of Christ, and that satisfaction he gave to his Father by his death, and likewise the inward sanctification of the Spirit, signified by the washing of water, and also the works and the prayers of the Saints, that are sweet as Incense: now (saith the Text, Gal. 4.)1 these were clements, and rudiments that God used to them as children; that is, as children have their A, B, C, •heir first elements, so GOD did show to the •ew•s •hese spiritual mysteries, not in themselves, ⟨p. 81⟩but in these types and shadows they were able to see them from day to day: for therein was their weakness, they were not so able as to conceive spiritual things without a mediate view; they saw the blood shed, and again, they saw the washings, and the rites, these were in their eye; whereas now in the time of the Gospel, these things are taught to us, these we comprehend in our minds, we serve the Lord in spirit and in truth, but there is not that visible sight, that was a help to their weakness; so that these differ, as the Image, and the substance it self, even as you see things in prospective shows, and in painting, that are different from the things themselves, when you come to see Countries, and Cities, and Mountains, and Woods, it is another thing. And this is the second difference between the Testaments, the one was expressed but in types and shadows, the other hath the substance it self.
Secondly, the Old was expressed in types, and shaddowes, and figures; as for example, they had the blood of Bulls and Goats, they had the washings of the body in cleane water, they had offering of Incense, &c. by which things other things are meant, as, namely, the dah of Christ, and that satisfaction he gaue to his Father by his death, and likewise the inward sanctificatiō of the Spirit, signified by the washing of water, and also the workes and the prayers of the Saints, that are sweet as Incense: now (saith the Text,