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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
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.
and therefore you may observe this by the ⟨p. 165⟩way, that when God doth write bitter things against a man, it is not a just cause of dejection: for this is a sign that God is beginning a good work in thee, seek not to put it off, and to think, it is a miserable thing to be under such a bondage as this: no, but make this use of it, let it bring thee home to Jesus Christ. And here, by the way, that men may not be deceived in this, and say,1 Alas, I have not had this spirit of bondage, and fear, and therefore I fear I am not right.
and therefore you may obserue this by the ⟨p. 165⟩way, that when God doth write bitter things against a man, it is not a iust cause of deiection: for this is a signe that God is beginning a good worke in thee, seeke not to put it off, and to thinke, it is a miserable thing to bee vnder such a bondage as this: no, but make this vse of it, let it bring thee home to Iesus Christ. And heere, by the way, that men may not bee deceiued in this, and say,1 Alas, I haue not had this spirit of bondage, and feare, and therefore I feare I am not right.
- 1Object.Obiect.
My beloved,1 you must know for what end the Lord sends it: he sends it for these two ends, and by that you shall know whether you have it or no: for if thou hast the end once, if the effect be wrought, no doubt but thou hast had the cause that produceth that effect.