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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.
there is a renewing, there is a change of the nature, a man is made another nature, even while he is looking upon the promise of pardon and remission, the promises of the New Covenant, that offer Jesus Christ, and the gift of righteousness through him, even by believing those promises it is wrought.
there is a renuing, there is a change of the nature, a man is made another nature, euen while hee is looking vpon the promise of pardon and remission, the promises of the New Couenant, that offer Iesus Christ, and the gift of righteousnesse through him, euen by beleeuing those promises it is wrought.
That it is so, you may compare this with that Rom. 6. where this objection is made, If there be a promise of pardon, and of grace, through Christ, then belike we may live as we list? No, saith the Apostle, do you but believe those promises of grace, and the care is easy for the rest, in 1, 2, 3.1 Verses, What shall we say then? shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid: Shall we that are dead to sin live yet therein? Know you not, that as ma•y as are baptized into Jesus Christ, are baptized into his death? The meaning is this, if once you receive Jesus Christ, and the pardon and remission of sins through him, you cannot be so baptized into him, but you must be baptized into his death; that is, of necessity, sin must be crucified in you, you must be dead to sin, as he was dead; you cannot be baptized into him for justification, but you must be baptized likewise for mortification of the flesh, and for resurrection to newness of life; Know you not, that all that are baptized into Jesus Christ, that is, that are baptized into him for reconciliation with God, of necessity they must also be baptized into his death? Therefore, saith he, you are dead to sin, by being thus baptized with Christ, it is impossible you should live in in it. So, I say, beloved, he that hath the strongest faith, he that believes in the greatest degree the promises of pardon and remission, I dare boldly say, he hath the holiest heart, and the holiest life: for that is the root of it, it ariseth from