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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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Beloved, when a man doth this, at that very hour he is entered into Covenant, he is translated from death to life, he hath now received the promised seed, and he shall be blessed, for God hath said it, and sworn it, and it cannot be otherwise; and this is the testimony of the blood, when a man can say, I know I have taken and applied the blood of Christ, I rest upon it, I believe that my sins are forgiven, I grasp it, I receive it, this is the testimony of the blood.
Beloued, when a man doth this, at that very houre he is entred into Couenant, he is translated from death to life, he hath now receiued the promised seede, and he shall be blessed, for God hath said it, and sworne it, and it cannot be otherwise; and this is the testimony of the blood, when a man can say, I know I haue taken and applyed the blood of Christ, I rest vpon it, I beleeue that my sinnes are forgiuen, I graspe it, I receiue it, this is the testimony of the blood.
Now, when a man hath took the blood, What? shall he continue in filthiness now, and walk after the lusts, of his former ignorance? No, the Lord comes not by blood only, but by water also, that is, by sanctification, that is, he sends the Spirit of sanctification, that cleanseth and washeth his servants, that washeth away not only the outward filthiness, but the evil nature, the swinish nature, that they desire no more to wallow in the mire, as before: for the Lord will not have a sluttish Church, and therefore,1 Eph. 5. he washeth his Church, and cleanseth it; he washeth every man in the Church from top to toe; there is not one place in the soul, not one place in the conversation, but it is rinsed in this water; and then, when a man comes to find this, that he hath not only found the blood of Christ applied to him by faith, but hath found that he hath been able to purify himself, and by the work of Christs Spirit joining with him, when he goes about to purge himself, that helps to cleanse his ⟨p. 153⟩