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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
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And so likewise may we reason from the two principles,1 either a man is borne of the flesh, or of the spirit; if he be borne of the spirit, he is spiritual, and if he be borne of the flesh, he is fleshly. And therefore in one of these two conditions he must needs be; which I observe for this purpose.
And so likewise may we reason from the two principles,1 either a man is borne of the flesh, or of the spirit; if he be borne of the spirit, he is spirituall, and if he be borne of the flesh, he is fleshly. And therefore in one of these two conditions hee must needes be; which I obserue for this purpose.
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First,1 you see hence then, that there are but two places hereafter for men, as there are but two ranks of men; there is no middle place, as the Papists affirm, there is no Purgatory, or Limbus, either for the Fathers before Christ, or for Children now; As they are all in one of these two ranks, in one of these two conditions, so there are but two places into which all men are divided, some to the one, and some to the other.
First,1 you see hence then, that there are but two places hereafter for men, as there are but two rankes of men; there is no middle place, as the Papists affirme, there is no Purgatorie, or Limbus, either for the Fathers before Christ, or for Children now; As they are all in one of these two rankes, in one of these two conditions, so there are but two places into which all men are divided, some to the one, and some to the other.