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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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as soon as they are brought in, he rates the Dog, and will not suffer him to do them the least hurt. A man will not have his servants, nor children, nor his friends hurt, but he will rate the Dog when he falls upon them; so the Lord doth with every creature whatsoever, when it comes to hurt them, he rebuker it, as he did the storms and winds: on the other side, when a man is out of Covenant with GOD, ⟨p. 239⟩then God unlooseth the collar of the creature, as it were, and sets him upon such a man, and saith unto him, go & worry such a man, wound him, be an enemy to him, hurt him. This objection is so to be answered, that those that are within the Covenant, they are often molested and troubled, the creatures seem to hurt them, though they be in League and at peace with them, and can do them no hurt.
as soone as they are brought in, he rates the Dog, and will not suffer him to doe them the least hurt. A man will not haue his seruants, nor children, nor his friends hurt, but he will rate the Dog when he fals vpon them; so the Lord doth with euery creature whatsoeuer, when it comes to hurt them, he rebuker it, as he did the stormes and winds: on the other side, when a man is out of Co•enant with GOD, ⟨p. 239⟩then God vnlooseth the coller of the creature, as it were, and sets him vpon such a man, and saith vnto him, go & worry such a man, wound him, be an enemy to him, hurt him. This obiection is so to be answered, that those that are within the Couenant, they are often molested and troubled, the creatures seeme to hurt them, though they be in League and at peace with them, and can doe them no hurt.
Secondly it is objected,1 that others that are out of the Covenant, they live in peace?
Secondly it is obiected,