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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.
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 Math. 11. 27.1 All things (saith he) are given me of my Father, and none knows the Son, but the Father: and so likewise with Joh. 3. 35.2 The Father loves the Son, and hath given all things into his hands: 3and with that 1 Cor. 15. 24. you shall see there this expression; saith the Apostle, there shall be an end, when Christ shall give up the King dome into the hands of the Father. The meaning of it is this, that though all things be in the hands of God, yet they are all put into the hands of Christ, as he is Mediator;4 and therefore Psal. 2. it is said, Ask of me, and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession: That is, he will give them into his hands to do with them what he pleaseth; So that (to add this to that which we have before delivered) it will be a profitable point for us to consider, that though God be All-sufficient, and hath all things ⟨p. 16⟩in his hands, yet he hath put all this into the hands of his Sonne.