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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.
Then last of all,1 if it be in Christ, if it be put into his hands immediately, then whensoever you receive any thing, let him have the sacrifice of praise, let it add some new love, and some new engagement, and thankfulness to the Sonne. The Father hath done it for that purpose, that the Son might be honoured, that the Son might be magnified, that we might learn to love the Son, to serve the Son, as we do the Father; and therefore whensoever we obtain any thing at his hands, let us be thankful to the Son; Labour to see his grace abounding towards us, and our hearts abounding to him in thankfulness, and in all the fruits of obedience. So much likewise shall serve for this point.
Then last of all,1 if it be in Christ, if it be put into his hands immediately, then whensoever you receiue any thing, let him haue the sacrifice of prayse, let it adde some new loue, and some new ingagement, and thankefulnesse to the Sonne. The Father hath done it for that purpose, that the Sonne might be honoured, that the Sonne might be magnified, that wee might learne to loue the Sonne, to serue the Sonne, as we doe the Father; and therefore whensoever we obtaine any thing at his hands, let vs be thankfull to the Sonne; Labour to see his grace abounding towards vs, and our hearts abounding to him in thankfulnesse, and in all the fruits of obedience. So much likewise shall serue for this poynt.
- 1Thankfulness.Thankfulnes.
Now we come to the next Conclusion, All things come alike to all; The same condition is to the just, as to the wicked, and to the good and pure, and to the polluted, to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not; such as the good is, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. Hence I gather thus much (before I come to speak of the application of these events to the sons of men,)