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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.
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, 1what is the reason of this ⟨p. 2⟩dispensation of things that we see in the world, that there be righteous men, to whom it is according to the work of the wicked, and there be wicked men again, to whom it is according to the work of the righteous?
WEE haue purposely chosen this text, that we might answer some objectiōs, 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, 1what is the reason of this ⟨p. 2⟩dispensation of things that we see in the world, that there be righteous men, to whom it is according to the worke of the wicked, and there be wicked men againe, to whom it is according to the worke of the righteous?
- 1Ob.
Here you have this answer made,1 That for a time all things come alike to all, there is the same condition to the one, as to the other: the reason of which you shall see when we come to the handling of the words. But in brief, to open them to you: you shall •inde, that this was the occasion of them. In the 16. verse of the former Chapter, saith the Wise man,2