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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.
WE will now proceed to the second difference which remaineth; and that is this;
WEE will now proceede to the second difference which remaineth; and that is this;
Consider whether thou be clean and pure in heart, or polluted; There is the same condition to the pure, and to the polluted.
Consider whether thou bee cleane and pure in heart, or polluted; There is the same condition to the pure, and to the polluted.
Now what it is to be clean,1 or to be washed, you shall see 1 Cor. 6. 11. And such were some of you: That is, you were polluted with those sins, there named, but now (saith he) you are washed. And wherein stands this washing? He tells us it stands in these two things: Now you are justified; now you are sanctified. You are justified through the name of Christ; and sanctified through the spirit of our God. ⟨p. 31⟩So then, he is a pure man, or a clean man, that is first washed from the guilt of his sins, that is, that hath no sin lying upon his Conscience, that hath not a polluted Conscience, which is a phrase used Titus 1. 2whose minds and consciences are defiled. Now defilement, or pollution is in the Conscience, as Divines say, as a thing that is known is in the faculty, or understanding that knows it; and therefore the man that hath committed any sin, which yet continues upon his own score, which his Conscience is yet guilty of, & for which he hath not yet gotten an acquittance from Almighty God, he is an impure man, he is yet unclean; for he is not yet washed from his filthiness.