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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
FOUR SERMONS, WHEREIN CERTAIN Objections against the point of GODS ALL-SUFFICIENCY, (handled in the five first Sermons of the former Treatise) are Answered.
FOVRE SERMONS, WHEREIN CERTAINE Objections against the poynt of GODS ALL-SVFFICIENCIE, (handled in the fiue first Sermons of the former Treatise) are Answered.
ECCLESIASTES 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. I have surely set my heart to all this, to declare this, that the just, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, and no man knoweth either love, or hatred, by all that is before him: for all things come alike to all, and the same condition is to the just, as to the wicked, and to the good, and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath, &c.
ECCLESIASTES 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. I haue surely set my heart to all this, to declare this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes, are in the hand of God, and no man knoweth either loue, or hatred, by all that is before him: for all things come alike to all, and the same condition is to the iust, as to the wicked, and to the good, and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sac•ificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath, &c.
WE have purposely chosen this text, that we might answer some objections, which might be made against the All-sufficiency of God, which we spake of lately to you; for this might be objected; If God be All-sufficient,