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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
Part › Sermon 12: THE TWELFTH SERMON.Part › Sermon 12: THE TVVELFTH SERMON.
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The fourth thing is, What the particular branches, and parts, or gifts, and privileges of this Covenant are; and those we will reduce unto three heads.
The fourth thing is, What the particular branches, and parts, or gifts, and priuiledges of this Couenant are; and those we will reduce vnto three heads.
Now the three parts of the Covenant are answerable to the three Offices of Christ: for, we told you, it is Christ▪ himself, to whom the promises are immediately made; he is a Priest, a King, and a Prophet; it is he that makes ⟨p. 128⟩good all the parts of the Covenant, and he doth •t according to all his three Offices; remission of sins, he gives as a Priest: The other Priests were but a shadow of this Priesthood of Christ, he is the great High Priest, that is holy, and harmless, and undefiled, that is higher then the heavens; the great High Priest, that is en•red (saith the Text) into the very heavens themselves; he that sits at the right hand of God, and is now present with him; he that is not entered in by the blood of Bulls, and of Goats, but by his own blood. This is such a High Priest, as is able indeed to give remission of sins; and therefore, saith the Apostle, Heb. 10. 22. Seeing we have such an high Priest, doubt not, but now come with full assurance of faith, when you see such an High Priest as this: if they were able to believe, that had but a weak man to be their Priest, before the coming of Christ, that offered for his own sins, as well as for the sins of others, that often repeated his Sacrifice, that that had but the blood of Bulls and Goats, that did but enter into the Tabernacle; saith he, when you see Jesus Christ himself come, that hath no Si•ne of his own, that offered one perfect Sacrifice, that he needs not to repeat, that entered not into the Tabernacle, but into the Heaven it self, that did this with his own blood, and not with the blood of beasts, saith he, draw near now with assurance of faith: hat is, Why should you make question now? you have great ground of assuring your selves,