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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.
you may know the better the meaning of those places. Well, so you see the Covenant; secondly, you see the Condition; now you hear that there is such a Covenant as this.
you may know the better the meaning of those places. Well, so you see the Couenant; secondly, you see the Condition; now you heare that there is such a Couenant as this.
The third thing is the confirmation of the Covenant; 1when a man hears that GOD will vouchsafe so much favour unto mankind, a man is ready to say as Gideon did, alas my family is poor in Manasseh, I am the least in all my Fathers house, And who am I, that I should be raised up hitherto? that such a promise as this should be made to me, that I should go, and save Israel? &c. I say, after the same manner a man might be ready to object, Alas, what are we the sons of men, that the great GOD of Heaven and Earth should enter into such a Covenant with us, that he should make us such promises as these, that he should make us heirs of the World, that he should bless us in that manner, to make us sons, to make us Kings and Priests? Saith the LORD, I confess it is a Covenant that needs confirmation: therefore the LORD hath confirmed it all these ways; the LORD hath confirmed it, first, by his promise; saith he, you have my sure word for it; if that be not enough, I will confirm it by an Oath, and because he had no greater to ⟨p. 122⟩swear by, he saith, by my self have I sworn, that I will make it good: this is not enough, but he confirms it by the blood of Christ himself; the Mediator shall come, and confirm this Testament, and when the Testament is confirmed by the death of the Testator, there is no more altering of that;2 saith he, Gal. 3