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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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The use we are to make of it is this,1 If there ⟨p. 224⟩be this comfort, that though a man do commit many sins, yet, so long as he hath the Lord for his husband, as long as he is not willing to choose another Master, still the Covenant is sure; Beloved, then comfort your selves with these words, and make use of the Covenant, and apply the promises of the Covenant, say this with thy self, it is very true, I am sinful, I provoke God from day to day, yet, for all this, I am not out of the Covenant, and therefore the promises of the Covenant belong to me, and therefore, notwithstanding my sins, I will go boldly to the Throne of Grace, and I will lay claim to the promises, and to all the parts of the Covenant, for they belong to me. Beloved, this use you should make of it, when you hear the Covenant is not broken.
The vse wee are to make of it is this,1 If there ⟨p. 224⟩be this comfort, that though a mandoe commit many sinnes, yet, so long as he hath the Lord for his husband, as long as he is not willing to chuse another Master, still the Couenant is sure; Beloued, then comfort your selues with these words, and make vse of the Couenant, and apply the promises of the Couenant, say this with thy selfe, it is very true, I am sinfull, I prouoke God from day to day, yet, for all this, I am not out of the Couenant, and therefore the promises of the Couenant belong to me, and therefore, notwithstanding my sinnes, I will go boldly to the Throne of Grace, and I will lay claime to the promises, and to all the parts of the Couenant, for they belong to me. Beloued, this vse you should make of it, whē you heare the Couenant is not broken.
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