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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
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The answer to it is,1 That these were but the oldness of the letter; for indeed all these did but clothe the Covenant of Grace; the Covenant of Grace was delivered to the Jews, the Ceremonies did indeed but set it out, they were but types and shadows, by which it was expressed to the Jews: the Jews, by reason of their ignorance, were not able to see the body for the clothes, they were not able to see the signification of the Spirit for the letter, they were not able to see the sword for the sheath, the kernel for the shell; that is, they could not see Christ himself, the inward promises, but stuck in the outward bark, and rind of Ceremonies, in the shell of them, and so they became unprofitable; but indeed those Rites did nothing, but clothe the Covenant of Grace, and set it forth to them. So much shall serve for the dispatching of those five things.
The answer to it is,1 That these were but the oldnesse of the letter; for indeed all these did but cloathe the Couenant of Grace; the Couenant of Grace was deliuered to the Iewes, the Ceremonies did indeede but set it out, they were but types and shaddowes, by which it was expressed to the Iewes: the Iewes, by reason of their ignorance, were not able to see the body for the clothes, they were not able to see the signification of the Spirit for the letter, they were not able to see the sword for the sheath, the kernell for the shell; that is, they could not see Christ himselfe, the inward promises, but stucke in the outward barke, and rinde of Ceremonies, in the shell of them, and so they became vnprofitable; but indeed those Rites did nothing, but cloathe the Couenant of Grace, and set it forth to them. So much shall serue for the dispatching of those fiue things.
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Now hence you see how those difficulties may be answered, that I mentioned before. For example, it is said, the promise is made to the