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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 one is from the Law,1 Is it not said every where, Those that obey the Commandment shall live, and every promise is made still to them that fear the LORD, and keep his Commandments? and therefore it is by the Law.
The one is from the Law,1 Is it not said euery where, Those that obey the Commandement shall liue, and euery promise is made still to them that feare the LORD, and keepe his Commandements? and therefore it is by the Law.
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Nay,1 saith the Apostle, Gal. 3. it is impossible that it should be by the Law: for the Law was given 430. years after the promise, and Covenant was established with Abraham long before it; it cannot be now, that that which comes after can disannul that which went before: but besides there is another great reason, and that is this, saith the Apostle, you were never able to keep the Law, you could never ⟨p. 139⟩be saved, if you would have it by the Law, to what end is the Law given then? By reason of transgression, that you might learn to know how impossible it is for you to come to God, to be partaker of the Covenant any other way, then by faith; saith he, you might remember that Adam, when he was in innocency and perfection, was much stronger then you, yet did not keep the Law; but, because that was easy for people to forget, the Law was given again by Moses, upon Mount Sinai, that the LORD by that means might remind you of the Commandment, and of your sins, and of the curse belonging to you; and therefore, saith he, when the Law was delivered, it was so terrible, that Moses himself did tremble; and therefore, said the People, Lord, do not thou speak to us any more, deliver not the Law to us any more, but let Moses come, and be as a Mediator between us, let him speak; for we are not able to see these fires, these burnings, we are not able to see this and live. The meaning of it is this, the Law, if any man look on it, it is so terrible, when GOD comes to speak to a man in his Law, and in his Commandments, that there is nothing to be expected but death: that same fearfulness at Mount Sinai, was but only an expression of that fear which the Law of God puts upon every mans conscience; and therefore, when the people then desired a Mediator, that might speak, and that GOD might speak no more, another thing