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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.
A second Consectary from it,1 is expressed in §2the third verse;2 saith he, This is an evil I have seen under the Sun, that there is one condition to all: That is, the sons of men when they have seen this carriage of things, this administration, and dispensation of good and evil, thus promiscuously, to men of all sorts; therefore, saith he, The hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live: That is, therefore they seek not God, but the creature, therefore they do not depend upon him, but seek to secondary means; What is the issue of it? therefore they go down to the dead: That is, they perish for ever. So much briefly for the meaning of the words. ⟨p. 4⟩Now before he comes to deliver these two conclusions, he makes this Preamble; I have given my heart, saith he, to all this, or I bend my self with all my might to this, even to declare these two things; that all things are in the hand of God, &c. whence we will gather this (in that Solomon saith, that he bent himself, with all his might, to declare both to himself, & to others, that all things are in the hands of God;) that It is a very hard thing,3 to be persuaded of Gods All-sufficiency.4
A second Consectarie from it,1 is expressed in §2the third verse;2 sayth he, This is an evill I haue seene vnder the Sunne, that there is one condition to all: That is, the sonnes of men when they haue seene this carriage of things, this administration, and dispensation of good and evill, thus premiscuously, to men of all sorts; therefore, sayth he, The hearts of men are full of evill, and madnesse is in their hearts while they liue: That is, therefore they seeke not God, but the creature, therefore they doe not depend vpon him, but seeke to secondaric meanes; What is the issue of it? therefore they goe downe to the dead: That is, they perish for ever. So much briefly for the meaning of the words.