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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.
First,1 in that he is most simple, without all mixture, as we say, that is, perfect: for perfection and All-sufficiency are all one. Perfection is that, whereby a thing is made up, so that there be nothing wanting to it; first, therefore, he is perfect, in that he is without all mixture; we say, that is perfect gold, that hath no mixture of dross in it; that is perfect wine, that hath no mixture of any thing besides; and in that the Lord is simple and most pure of essence, it must needs be that he is All-sufficient, that he is most perfect, as it is 1 John 1. He is light, and there is no darkness in him. That is. There is no mixture of any thing in him.
First,1 in that he is most simple, without all mixture, as we say, that is, perfect: for perfection and All-sufficiencie are all one. Perfection is that, whereby a thing is made vp, so that there be nothing wanting to it; first, therefore, he is perfect, in that he is without all mixture; we say, that is perfect gold, that hath no mixture of drosse in it; that is perfect wine, that hath no mixture of any thing besides; and in that the Lord is simple and most pure of essence, it must needs be that he is All-sufficient, that he is most perfect, as it is 1 Iohn 1. He is light, and there is no darknesse in him. That is. There is no mixture of any thing in him.
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Secondly.1 As he is without mixture, so he is without composition; wheresoever there is composition (as there is in every creature,) there is some imperfection: for, where there is composition, there are parts, and wheresoever there are parts, there must needs be imperfection: for the part wants something of the whole; but in the Lord there are no parts, he is without composition, and therefore he must needs be most perfect, and most absolute, and All-sufficient in himself.