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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.
Thirdly.1 As he is without composition, so he is without number: for all number, and all multiplying, ariseth from imperfection: for if one would serve the turn, what needed more? And, therefore, he, being one, simply one, must needs be All-sufficient, for there is no multiplying in him, and, therefore, there is no sign of imperfection.
Thirdly.1 As he is without composition, so he is without number: for all number, and all multiplying, ariseth from imperfection: for if one would serue the turne, what needed more? And, therefore, he, being one, simplie one, must needs be All-sufficient, for there is no multiplying in him, and, therefore, there is no signe of imperfection.
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Fourthly.1 As he is without number, so he is without any passive power. If he had any passive power in him, (as every creature hath,) he were capable of receiving something that he hath not, but the Lord is not so much as capable of it; for, if there be no receptive power, no passive power in him, it is impossible that any more should be put, or infused into him, or imprinted, or stamped in him, then is in him already. And, therefore, he is all in act. There is nothing in possibility in God.
Fourthly.1 As he is without number, so he is without any passive power. If he had any passiue power in him, (as every creature hath,) he were capable of receiving something that he hath not, but the Lord is not so much as capable of it; for, if there be no receptiue power, no passiue power in him, it is impossible that any more should be put, or infused into him, or imprinted, or stamped in him, then is in him alreadie. And, therefore, he is all in act. There is nothing in possibilitie in God.