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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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for if thou be out of League with GOD, thou art out of the protection of the Law, if any creature do thee mischief, it shall never be required at his hands, but there is a liberty given them, Satan may hurt thee, men may hurt thee, beasts may hurt thee, all the insensible creatures may hurt thee; for there is no prohibition. Besides, thou hast no Shield, nor Buckler to defend thee from ⟨p. 236⟩them: for thou art not in Covenant with GOD, he is no Buckler to thee: all this is the case of every man that is out of the Covenant; and this is not a small thing, to be out of the pales of Gods protection, to have every creat•re ready to do a man a showed turn, and he to have no immunity, nothing to deliver him; it is not so with the Saints, all the creatures are at peace with them.
for if thou be out of League with GOD, thou art out of the protection of the Law, if any creature doe thee mischiefe, it shall neuer be required at his hands, but there is a liberty giuen them, Satan may hurt thee, men may hurt thee, beasts may hurt thee, all the insensible creatures may hurt thee; for there is no prohibition. Besides, thou hast no Shield, nor Buckler to defend thee from ⟨p. 236⟩them: for thou art not in Couenant with GOD, he is no Buckler to thee: all this is the case of euery man that is out of the Couenant; and this is not a small thing, to be out of the pales of Gods protection, to haue euery creat•re ready to do a man a shewd turne, and he to haue no immunity, nothing to deliuer him; it is not so with the Saints, all the creatures are at peace with them.
To draw this a little nearer, if there be any thing in the body, or out of the body, that troubles us, if there be imaginations in the mind, that be to the soul, as the Gout is to the body, if thou be in Covenant with God, all these are at peace with thee: for all these are at Gods command, it is a part of his Covenant; when thou art in Covenant and League with him, thou art in League with them, and therefore they shall never do thee hurt. Be assured of that, when thou art within the Covenant, there is no creature in heaven or earth can do thee hurt: for thou art at peace with it, it is not an enemy, and that which is not an enemy, it never doth hurt; but if thou be not in Covenant with God, now these have a power to hurt thee, there is no prohibition upon them, there is no restraint, but they may do thee hurt, they are enemies to thee, both those things, and whatsoever else is in heaven or Earth; Satan, and every creature hath power to do thee hurt: when thou walkest in the way, when thou sittest in thy house, wheresoever thou art, thou walkest in thee middest of 1000. dangers, because thou art not in