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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.
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.
The next thing to be considered, which we propounded, is, When the Covenant is dissolved.
The next thing to be considered, which wee propounded, is, When the Couenant is dissolued.
You must know,1 that the Covenant is then dissolved, when that is dissolved that did make the Covenant. Look what it is that puts a man into the Covenant of Grace at the first, when that is taken away, then the Covenant is disannulled between God and us, but till then the Covenant remains sure. Now, what is it that makes the Covenant? Mark it, This is that that makes the Covenant, when Jesus Christ offers himself to us, and makes known his consent, he is the promised seed, in whom all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed; when we again come, and take this promised seed, and give our consent, and make him our LORD, and we be subject to him to be his; when we say to the promised seed, he shall be my God and my Governor, and I will be among his people, and be subject to him; I say, when the heart gives a full consent to this, when the heart hath thus took the promised seed, and received him, and looks for all from him, now the Covenant and Contract is made between them. Now, beloved, as long as this union continues between CHRIST and us, the Covenant is not disannulled; so that, in a word, the Covenant ⟨p. 215⟩is never nullified, until thou hast chosen to thy self another husband, till thou hast taken to thy self another Lord. In a marriage, there may be many failings of a Wife towards her Husband, many neglects, many disobediences, many fits of passion, many offences she may give him, but till she commit adultery, the bond continues sure, there is no divorce between them; the Covenant of God still remains between them, there is no dissolution of the Covenant: Beloved, so it is here, thou committest many transgressions, thou offendest God oft, thou failest much in thy service thou owest him, but till thou shalt commit spiritual adultery, till thou leave him, as it were, and shalt select and choose to thy self another Master, another Lord, another Husband, the Covenant remains sure between you, there is no dissolution of the Covenant. Beloved, this is a point exceeding full of comfort: thou must not think, that upon every sin the Covenant is overthrown between GOD and thee: no, the Covenant remains sure, the bond is not untied as yet, though thou fail exceeding much, though thou fall into many actual rebellions against him, yet the Covenant is not dissolved.