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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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But this objection will be made,1 Yea, but many or those that are within the Covenant, receive hu•t from the creatures, & many of those that are out of the Covenant, live peaceable and quiet lives?
But this obiection will be made,1 Yea, but many or those that are within the Couenant, receiue hu•t from the creatures, & many of those that are out of the Couenant, liue peaceable and quiet liues?
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I will answer it in a word;1 It is very true, they may be exercised, though all the host of heaven and earth be at peace with them, and there is not any creature can do them the least hurt; no, they neither will, nor can go about it, to lift up their hand against them; yet they may be exercised with many afflictions, but there is a very great difference between these two, the same disease, the same grief, the same apprehension, lies on the heart, and wounds the spirits of the one man, but to the other that is in Covenant, it is a rod in the hand of a father, enabling him to keep his Covenant the better, it is as a Medicine in the hand of a Physician, to heal him, to comfort him, to do him good; that very disease to another is as a sword in the hand of an enemy, as poison in the hand of the destroyer to hurt him. As, for example, the Devil had power to vex Saul, and to vex Job, here was the same instrument, the Devil had power over both, but there was a great deal of difference, you know, he had power over Saul as an enemy, he had power over Job as a friend: and so likewise Judas had a messenger of Satan, to fill his h•art, and Paul had a messenger of Satan