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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 14: THE FOURTEENTH SERMON.Part › Sermon 14: THE FOVRTEENTH SERMON.
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YOU remember how far we are proceeded in this point▪ for my purpose is not to repeat any thing of that which hath been delivered: only this we must call to remembrance, that the main difference which is between the Old Testament and the New, it stands in this, that the Old Testament was hi• with shadows, and types; in the New Testament, there is a more clear […] of all things; The things that were •id, ([…]) ⟨p. 200⟩Paul) from the beginning of the world, are •ow revealed unto us; that is, the great difference between them, it lies in this, that there is a greater abundance of knowledge discovered to the sons of men, now, in the time of the Gospel, then there was in the time of the Old Testament, and from hence it is, that now God makes a Covenant with us, and we do not break it;1 but, saith he, Heb. 8. I made a Covenant with your Fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the Land of Egypt; but they broke my Covenant; And what was the reason? Because their knowledge was exceeding slender, and therefore their grace and strength were exceeding little, and therefore they were not able to keep the Covenant, there is no other reason and ground, why the Covenant is better now, as it is said to be a better Covenant, Heb. 8. 6. stablished upon better promises; I say, there is no other ground for it, but this, the difference of knowledge between the two Ce•enants; for, for substance they are the same, only in the administration of them, the glorious Mysteries of the Gospel are more openly and more clearly revealed to us in the New Testament, then in the Old.
YOV remember how farre wee are proceeded in this point▪ for my purpose is not to repeate any thing of that which hath beene deliuered: onely this wee must call to remembran•e, that the maine difference which is betweene the Old Testament and the New, it stands in this, that the Old Testament was hi with shaddowes, and types; in the New Tstament, there is a more clere of all things; The things that were id, ()