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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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And the third and last is, that we shall overcome our enemies, that is the third branch of ⟨p. 136⟩this Kingdom; And that which was promised to Abraham, thou shalt possess the gates of thine Enemies▪ when he renewed his Covenant, upon the offering of his son, and you shall find it, Luke 1. 74. repeated again, this is the great promise that God hath made, that being delivered from the hands of all our enemies, we might serve him in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life. Now as his Kingdom is spiritual, so the chief part of this Kingdom stands in overcoming our spiritual enemies; and therefore you may challenge this Covenant at his hands, when you are to wrestle with Satan, or any temptation and lust, LORD, hast thou not said that thou wilt deliver me out of the hands of all mine enemies? Is it not a part of thy Covenant? But, beloved, that is not all neither, there is a promise, and that is a part of the Covenant likewise, that we shall overcome our outward enemies, thou shalt possess the gate of thine enemies, so far as it is good for us, as far as God sees it meet, he dispenseth these in a different manner, but yet it is a part of the Covenant, and therefore a man may go and challenge this at Gods hands; LORD, if it be good, if it be fit, and meet for me to have it, thou hast promised it, I shall have victory over them also. So now you see what the Covenant is: But now there is one main general, that likewise is a branch of this Covenant, that is general to all the three, that is the giving of the Spirit, it is a branch of the Covenant, as we see, ⟨p. 137⟩Joel 2. which is repeated, Act. 2. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh in those days, and your young men shall see visions, &c. Beloved, know that this was a part of the Covenant that was made with Abraham, It was expressed to Abraham in general, I will bless thee, afterwards there were several branches of it; now one thing was expressed, as part of the Covenant, and then another; among the branches, this was one, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, which is that which you have likewise, Isaiah 44. 3. I will pour out my Spirit as water upon the dry ground, and you shall grow as the grass, and as the Willow by the Rivers of water. Whereof that this is the meaning, Peter makes it good,