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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.
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But now who is able to persuade men of this? Surely he that persuaded Solomon that all was vanity; it is he that must persuade us; without him it cannot be done. What was the reason else that Peter, Andrew, John, and the rest of the Apostles, were able to forsake all things, when others were not? Doubtless, because they were persuaded they should find it again in Christ, when others were not so persuaded; flesh and blood did not teach them, but the holy Ghost revealed it to them, that though they had lost all, yet they should find all, yea, they should find an hundred fold more. What was the Reason that Demas, and others, when they met with persecution, and temporal preferments in the world, were not able to keep on their course, but turned aside, when Paul who had the same temptations did not? The reason was, because it was not revealed to Demas, but it ⟨p. 13⟩was to Paul; A window was opened to him in heaven, as it were, to look into Gods All-sufficiency, to see the treasures there, to see Gods power, and eternity, and blessedness; and when he walked in a continual sight of this All-sufficiency, Paul cared not whither he went, nor what became of him; it was nothing then for him ot pass from prison to prison, from affliction to affliction. So, as long as a man walks in a continual sight of Gods All-sufficiency, as long as he sees him that is invisible, so long he is full of comfort, so long he is able to do any thing; but when once his sight is taken from him, when once he is left in darkness, that Torches and Candles begin to appear great lights unto him, (as you know it is in the dark night,) that is a sign that a man is in darkness, when the fear of men, and the favour of men, seem great unto him: So it will be when God doth but leave us a little, when he doth but cloud us, when he withdraws from us that light of his All-sufficiency, then we are ready to sink, and to fail in our duty, and to turn aside, to balk the ways of righteousness. And therefore if you would have the use of this All-sufficiency, if you would be persuaded that all things are in Gods hands, beseech him to teach you to depend upon him.