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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.
But he doth pray sometimes?1
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Yea, for some fit,1 he may be in some extremity, he may cry as a Thief at the Bar may cry to the Judge, as he doth sometimes exceeding hard, not because he loves the Judge, but it is a cry that comes from extremity, and it is but in extremity, and by that the falseness and hypocrisy of them is known: So an Hypocrite may cry in the time of extremity, but it is a cry, it is not a prayer, and it is but in the time of extremity, it is not at all times that he doth it, he is not able to do it; for the Lord is a stranger to hi•, he looks upon the Lord, as upon a terrible Judge; and therefore if you would know whether you have the spirit of the Son; As first thou shalt know it by that which went before; and as, secondly, thou shalt know it by that which goes together with it, the testimony of the blood, the testimony of the water, and of thine own spirit,
Yea, for some fit,1 he may be in some extremity, he may cry as a Thiefe at the Barre may cry to the Iudge, as he doth sometimes exceeding hard, not because he loues the Iudge, but it is a cry that comes from extremity, and it is but in extremity, and by that the falsenesse and hypocrisie of them is known: So an Hypocrite may cry in the time of extremity, but it is a cry, it is not a prayer, and it is but in the time of extremity, it is not at all times that he doth it, hee is not able to doe it; for the Lord is a stranger to hi•, he lookes vpon the Lord, as vpon a terrible Iudge; and therefore if you would know whether you haue the spirit of the Sonne; As first thou shalt know it by that which went before; and as, secondly, thou shalt know it by that which goes together with it, the testimony of the blood, the testimony of the water, and of thine owne spirit,