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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.
Fourthly, the parts of the Covenant.
Fourthly, the parts of the Couenant.
Fifthly, the objections the Jews might be ready to make against it. And showing those five, we shall open it fully unto you.
Fiftly, the obiections the Iewes might bee ready to make against it. And shewing those fiue, we shall open it fully vnto you.
First, The Covenant 1that GOD made with Abraham, was after this manner: Abraham, saith the LORD, I will give thee a seed, and in that seed, both thou thy self, and all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed; and the question is, how this shall be done? Saith the Lord, he shall bless thee, he shall have power in his hands to bless thee; for I will make him a Prophet, a Priest, and a King. All the blessings that the people ever had, they were conveyed to them by these three, by their Priests, by their Prophets, and by their Kings: saith he, this promise I have made to that seed, that be shall be a Prophet, a Priest, and a King; yea, saith he, that seed of mine that I shall send, that shall be borne of thee, he shall be my Son, and my Heir, and in him likewise thou shalt be made an heir, and a son; an heir of all the World, as he is a Son, as he is endowed with all spiritual privileges belonging to him; yea, thou shalt not only have this, but, saith he, thou shalt even have the Spirit of ⟨p. 109⟩the Son, and be made like to him, thou shalt be made a Prophet, as he is a Prophet, he shall •each thee so, by infusing of the same Spirit that dwells in himself, he shall each thee such knowledge, that thou shal be a Prophet, as he: Yea, he shall make thee a Priest, as himself; thine own person shall be accepted aswell as what thou dost: yea, he shall make thee a King, as he is a King; that is, thou shalt have the spirit of a King, to rule over all thy sinful lusts and dispositions, thou shalt have the peace of a King, the joy, the comfort, the riches of a King, and the victory of a King, I will deliver thee from all thine enemies: and for a Type of this, (for the Covenant was made after Melchizedek came to him, as we may see, Chap. 14.) thou shalt see a resemblance of it, in that Melchizedek hath done to thee, he came to thee, and blessed thee, and he was a King, a a Priest, and a Prophet; he was the King of peace, and the Priest of the most high God; and what was the blessing that Melchizedek brought to Abraham? Saith he, The LORD bless thee; he blessed him, that is, he bade him go on, and prosper, he wished that all blessings might come upon him, that he might overcome his enemies, &c. that he might have blessings of all sorts, they are not set down particularly; and in a word, he made him heir of all things: