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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
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and therefore when Christ is said to be the light of the world, he is said likewise to be the life: the light he was, 1 Joh. 4. and, Joh. 8. he is the true light, that lightens every man. And what is that light? Why, it is that light that brings life together with it, Therefore,1 Eph. 5. 14. Arise thou that sleepest, &c. and Christ shall give thee light. Now, you know, life is contrary to death, but the Apostle expresseth it thus, CHRIST shall give thee light; because when a man hath much light, he shall withal have much life and grace: and therefore this I will commend to you, as one of the principal means of all other to grow strong in grace, and in the inward man, to grow much in knowledge. Beloved, it is another thing then we are aware of: if we were fully persuaded that it were a thing so excellent, that it would bring so much grace with it, certainly we would study it more then we do:2 2 Pet. 2. 20. saith he, You have escaped the filthiness of the world, through the knowledge of Christ. That is, that that delivers you from the bondage of sin, that which enables you to escape the filthiness that is in the world, when other men are yet ⟨p. 207⟩tangled with it, it is because you know that, that other men are ignorant of, it is through the knowledge of Christ, if you have escaped; and, 2 Pet. 1. 2.3 Grace be multiplied through the knowledge of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ. Grace be multiplied through that knowledge, as if he should say, multiply you that knowledge, & this is that means whereby Grace shall be multiplied to you.
and therefore when Christ is said to be the light of the world, he is said likewise to be the life: the light he was,