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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.
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 I have applied my heart unto wisdom, and to behold the business that is done upon the earth, in which I had no rest, either day or night, I was so intent upon them. Well; what is the conclusion? Saith he, I found this, I was not able to find out the reason of Gods works; I beheld the works of God, that man cannot find out the works that are wrought under the Sun, yea though a wise man think to know it, he cannot find it: That is, when I see how God dispenseth things, I am not able to find out the reason, and not I only, but no man is able to find it, no, saith he, though he be a wise man; no, although he search never so diligently, he cannot find out the reason of Gods ways, the reason of his providence, of his dispensing of prosperity to the wicked, and adversity to the godly; yet these two Conclusions notwithstanding he found, which he expres•eth in the first verse.
Here you haue 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 briefe, to open them to you: you shall •inde, that this was the occasion of them. In the 16. verse of the former Chapter, sayth the Wiseman,2 I haue applyed my heart vnto wised•me, and to behold the busines that is done vpon the earth, in which I had no rest, either day or night, I was so intent vpon them. Well; what is the conclusion? Sayth he, I found this, I was not able to finde out the reason of Gods workes; I beheld the workes of God, that man cannot finde out the workes that are wrought vnder the Sunne, yea though a wise man thinke to know it, he cannot finde it: That is, when I see how God dispenseth things, I am not able to finde out the reason, and not I onely, but no man is able to finde it, no, saith he, though he be a wise man; no, although he search never so diligently, he cannot find out the reason of Gods wayes, the reason of his providence, of his dispensing of prosperitie to the wicked, and adversitie to the godly; yet these two Conclusions notwithstanding he found, which he expreseth in the first verse.