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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.
Last of all; The Father hath done it,1 that no flesh might rejoice in it self; so saith the Apostle, he hath made the Son to us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, that he that rejoiceth might rejoice in the Sonne. And therefore we see Deut. 8. 18.2 how careful he was to teach the Israelites this, showing them, that they were not brought into that good land for their own righteousness, but for his Covenants sake, that is, for the Covenant he made both with them and us in Christ, when was manifested to Abraham and Jacob, but was in the Sonne.
Last of all; The Father hath done it,1 that no flesh might reioyce in it selfe; so sayth the Apostle, he hath made the Sonne to vs wisedome, righteousnesse, sanctification, and redemption, that he that reioyceth might reioyce in the Sonne. And therefore we see Deut. 8. 18.2 how carefull he was to teach the Israelites this, shewing them, that they were not brought into that good land for their owne righteousnesse, but for his Covenants sake, that is, for the Covenant he made both with them and vs in Christ, when was manifested to Abraham and Iacob, but was in the Sonne.
- 1Reas. 4.
- 2Deut. 8. 18.