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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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Now the promises of the Covenant are of 3. sorts; the promises of justification, the promises of sanctification, and the promises of blessings of all sorts, that belong to this life, and to the life to come. This threefold use then thou shouldst make of it, First, put the case there lies upon thy heart the conscience of any sin that thou hast committed, that troubles thee, thou art afraid that this sin should make a separation between God and thee, thou hast yet no assurance of the forgiveness of it, but the conscience of the sin lies upon thee, as that expression you have Heb. 10. 1what wilt thou do in such a case? Go to the Lord, and say to him, Lord, notwithstanding this, I know I am in Covenant with thee, and Lord, this is one part of thy Covenant, that ⟨p. 225⟩thou wilt remember our sins no more, but, when they are sought they shall not be found. My beloved, as you have heard before, they are the very words of the Covenant. I say, if thou come to the Lord thus, and bring Christ in thine arms, (for that is the nature of •aith, faith first seizeth upon the dead body, as the Vultures and as the Eagles do first seize upon the body; so faith first seizeth upon Christ) I say, if thou canst go to him, and say, Lord, I have thy Son, he hath offered himself to me, he is freely offered, and I have took him, and all thy promises in him are Yea and Amen, and this is one of thy promises, that thou wilt forgive me: if one plead the Covenant hard with God, and tell him it is a part of his Covenant, and he must be just, he cannot be a Covenant-breaker; do you think that God will break his Covenant with thee, or any man? he cannot deny thee, he will put away thy sins: strengthen thy self with this: for this Covenant is continual, the Mediator of this Covenant is Jesus Christ, who is such an High Priest that is able perfectly to save those that come unto him, when a man hath committed the greatest sin, and sees but the blood of Bulls and Goats, he might think thus with himself, alas, what can this poor and beggarly Ceremony do, to deliver me from the conscience of my sin? Well, saith the Apostle, we have another kind of Sacrifice, and another kind of Priest,2