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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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after that manner deal thou with the promises, for they are rich, there is a price in them, be thou as an extortioner to them, take out whatsoever thou needest, or wring it out of the promises, as it were. Now when a man is poor and needy, let him go to the rich promises, and be as an oppressor to them, that is, consider the promises to the utmost, see the utmost riches that is contained in them, and they will make thee rich again; draw out the utmost of that milk that is in them, and it will exceedingly revive & comfort thee: for example, (that I may a little open it to you) Jacob, when Esau met him, and his heart began to faint, (for, saith the Text, he feared exceedingly) his heart began to fail him now, and what did he? he did go and suck consolation out of the promises: for thus he reasons with the Lord, Lord, thou hast said thou wilt do me good; now he stays himself up with this, and he got so much strength with this milk, that he was able to wrestle with the Lord all night, and would not let him go without a blessing; this promise sustained him, from whence he sucked consolation and strength for thou hast said thou wilt do me good, therefore I am resolved, I am sure I am upon good ground▪ I will not let thee go without a blessing. And so Abraham, when he was to offer his only son, what should he do now? here he was desolate, poor, and needy, certainly his heart could not but be ready ⟨p. 233⟩to fail, & what should sustain him in this case? there was a promise, you see,1 Heb. 11. he was sure God had made a promise, and he said unto him, this is Isaac, and this Isaac I will multiply, and with him I will establish my Covenant, and his seed shall be as the Stars of heaven; saith Abraham, God promised it, and though I should kill him, God can put a new life into him; he went, you know how far from his house where he dwelt▪ surely he sustained himself by the promise, he rested upon this promise, he drew consolation from it, and he drew it to the full, there was much milk in that promise, and that sustained and comforted him. I might give you many instances. So David, when he comforted himself at Ziglag, what was it that he comforted himself in? Surely David remembered this, the Lord hath anointed me King over Israel, he hath said that I shall be King, and shall sit in the Throne of Saul;