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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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So likewise, for pleasure, when a man finds his heart so wedded to any sinful lust, to any evil haunt, wherein his heart is held inordinately, that it cannot divorce it self from it, go to Christ, he is the great Prophet. Thus we may do, beloved, with the rest. This is the second part of the Covenant.
So likewise, for pleasure, when a man finds his heart so wedded to any sinfull lust, to any euill haunt, wher•in his heart is held inordinately, that it cannot diuorse it selfe from it, goe to Christ, hee is the great Prophet. Thus we may doe, beloued, with the rest. This is the second part of the Couenant.
The third part of the Covenant is, that which he will perform to us, as he is King, and it consists in these 3. things.
The third part of the Couenant is, that which he will performe to vs, as he is King, and it consists in these 3. things.
You know the Office of a King is to guide and rule; now, if thou find thy heart unruly, if thou find thy self subject to unruly affections, to sinful inordinate lusts, which thou canst not master, it is a part of his Kingdom, now to set up his own government in thy heart, to put his Law into thy mind, and to write it in thy inward parts, that so thou mayst be indeed subject to the Kingdom of Christ in a willing manner. When a man sees nothing (as we ⟨p. 133⟩said before) but the outward letter of the Law, he will never be subject, he will never yield obedience, but Christ comes as a King now, and puts an inward disposition into the mind, that shall answer the letter without, and so he makes a man subject to his government. Beloved, that Phrase is to be marked,