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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.
That all things, all men, all their ways, all the Creatures, with the several works of them, are in the hands of God: for it is thus methodically set down; The wise are in the hands of God, and their works, and so are the wicked, and their works, and so are all the Creatures in his hands, with all the effects that proceed from them.
That all things, all men, all their wayes, all the Creatures, with the severall workes of them, are in the hands of God: for it is thus methodically set downe; The wise are in the hands of God, and their workes, and so are the wicked, and their workes, and so are all the Creatures in his hands, with all the effects that proceede from them.
Now how all things are in Gods hands in general, we have declared to you before: but we will now deliver it a little more distinctly, that I may add some thing to that, which I have formerly taught. They are all in the hands of God, that is, originally in the hands of the Father, and in the hands of all the persons of the Trinity, as they join in the deity, as they are God: but yet, if you compare this place with some other, you shall see more distinctly in what manner they are in the hands of God: They are, I say, originally in the hands of the Father; but yet they are more immediately put into the hands of the Son, as he is Mediator. Therefore compare this place with