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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.
A wicked man may make some show of prayer to God in time of health, and in time of peace, but at that time, saith he, when he hath spent his time in gathering up riches, in heaping up them, and GOD comes upon him suddenly, and shall pull away his soul, he tears and rends it from him, (for so the word signifies in the Original) that is, he is not willing to resign it into Gods hands, as the righteous man doth, but he is busy about his wealth, and God surpriseth him, and rends his soul from him. What will he do in this case? What? will he pray? saith Job, No, he gives two reasons. He hath •o delight in the Lord, he never loved the Lord, there is no such love between ⟨p. 159⟩the Lord and him, as there is between the Father and the Child, between the Husband and the Wife, he never had the spirit of a son, he cannot pray, for he delights not in God.
A wicked man may make some shew of prayer to God in time of health, and in time of peace, but at that time, saith he, when he hath spent his time in gathering vp riches, in heaping vp them, and GOD comes vpon him suddenly, and shall pull away his soule, he teares and rends it from him, (for so the word signifies in the Originall) that is, he is not willing to resigne it into Gods hāds, as the righteous man doth, but he is busie about his wealth, and God surprizeth him, and rends his soule from him. What will he doe in this case? What? will he pray? saith Iob, No, hee giues two reasons. He hath •o delight in the Lord, he neuerloued the Lord, there is no such loue betweene ⟨p. 159⟩the Lord and him, as there is betweene the Father and the Childe, betweene the H•sband and the Wife, he neuer had the spirit of a son, he cannot pray, for he delights not in God.
But he doth pray sometimes?1