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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.
Beloved, there is a great backwardness in us to come to the trial; as a crazy body will not endure the trial of the weather; as a weak eye will not endure the light, for it is offensive to it; So when the heart is not sound, this trial, this searching, this examining of the heart, it is tedious, grievous, and burdensome; but yet, Beloved, it is profitable, it is that which makes us sound in the faith, we must come to it sooner or latter, and it is best for us to come to it, while we have time to help it, if we find things amiss. To have a great freight, and to make shipwreck in the Haven, were a great folly; and therefore we should look to the Bark, and see whether it be sound or no. To see in what estate we are, in which of these conditions we are.
Beloved, there is a great backwardnesse in vs to come to the tryall; as a crazie bodie will not indure the tryall of the weather; as a weake eye will not indure the light, for it is offensiue to it; So when the heart is not sound, this tryall, this searching, this examining of the heart, it is tedious, grieuous, and burthensome; but yet, Beloved, it is profitable, it is that which makes vs sound in the faith, we must come to it sooner or latter, and it is best for vs to come to it, while we haue time to helpe it, if we finde things amisse. To haue a great fraight, and to make shipwracke in the Haven, were a greatfolly; and therefore we should looke to the Barke, and see whether it be sound or no. To see in what estate we are, in which of these conditions we are.
You will say to me,1 how shall we know?
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