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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.
In whom after you bel••ued, you were sealed with the spirit of promise) when you put to your seal that God is true, God then comes and puts to his seal, he gives you the spirit of promise, and assures you that it is so; that is, he doth by his own Spirit say to a mans soul, that he is his salvation. My beloved, this is a certain expression of the Holy Ghost to the soul of a man, that we know not how to express to you: therefore it is called the hidden Manna: it is called a white stone, with a new name written in it, that no man knows but he that hath it, a certain manifestation of Christ to the soul, a certain divine light, a certain secret token of his love, whereby Christ manifests himself to the soul of a man, that which the Scriptures call supping with him; I will come and sup with him; Rev. 3. & Job. 14. 21. I and my Father will come to him, and I will manifest my own self unto him; this is the witness of the Spirit, that when the witness of our own spirit is somewhat obscure, we may then say, ⟨p. 173⟩Lord, thou now speakest plainly, now there is no question. My beloved, this is the witness of the Spirit; that thou be not mistaken in it, still remember this, that it is given to those that overcome; if thou be overcome of every thing▪ of every small temptation, if thou be overcome with a blast of praise, with a little pelf, and wealth, dost thou think now thou hast got the white stone tha• Christ gives as the witness of his Spirit? No, my beloved, it is to those that overcome, and so it is to those that open: if thou be a stubborn servant, that Christ may come again and again, a•d knock at the door, and tell thee of such a sin, that thou lyest in, and of such a duty that thou neglectest, and yet thou carriest thy self like a stubborn servant, that will not hear him, or if thou do, thou wilt not go about thy wo•ke, that he hath appointed thee; dost thou think he will come in, and sup with thee, when thou wilt not open to him? No, my beloved, it is not Christ that sups with thee▪ but it is a delusion of Satan but how shall we know this? These are the things that accompany the Spirit;