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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The next question we had to propound to you,1 was this, How a man should know whether he be within the Covenant, or no?2 You shall know it by this, How did Abraham know whether he was in the Covenant, or how will you know whether Abraham, or any other were? saith the Text, Abraham believed God, and therefore God reckoned him as a man that was righteous, and accepted him to be a partaker of the Covenant: and so, if thou believe, it is certain then, thou art within the Covenant; but how shall a man know that? Gal. 5. 5. Neither Circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love. If thou canst find this now, that thou art able to take Jesus Christ, to take him as a LORD and Savio•r, thou art able to believe all the Covenant of Grace, thou art by that put into the Covenant.
The next question wee had to propound to you,1 was this, How a man should know whether he be within the Couenant, or no?2 You shall know it by this, How did Abraham know whether he was in the Couenant, or how will you know whether Abraham, or any other were? saith the Text, Abraham beleeued God, and therefore God reckoned him as a man that was righteous, and accepted him to bee a partaker of the Couenant: and so, if thou beleeue, it is certaine then, thou art within the Couenant; but how shall a man know that? Gal. 5. 5. Neither Circumcision auaileth any thing, nor vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue. If thou canst finde this now, that thou art able to take Iesus Christ, to take him as a LORD and Sauio•r, thou art able to beleeue all the Couenant of Grace, thou art by that put into the Couenant.
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