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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.
A man again that hath gotten any assurance of forgiveness, so that all his sins are put upon the reckoning of Jesus Christ, and there are none that lye upon his own score, a man who hath made all his reckonings even with God, and hath some assurance thereof such a man is washed from his filthiness. Such a phrase you have likewise in Ezech. 36. 25.1 I will cleanse you (or wash you) from all your Idols: That is, from all your Idolatry, from all the sins that you have committed, I will wash you, that is, with imputation, or sprinkling of the blood of Christ.
A man againe that hath gotten any assurance of forgiuenesse, so that all his sinnes are put vpon the reckoning of Iesus Christ, and there are none that lye vpon his owne score, a man who hath made all his reckonings even with God, and hath some assurance therof such a man is washed from his filthinesse. Such a phrase you haue likewise in Ezech. 36. 25.1 I will cleanse you (or wash you) from all your Idols: That is, from all your Idolatrie, from all the sinnes that you haue cōmitted, I will wash you, that is, with imputation, or sprinkling of the bloud of Christ.
The second cleanness, is, when a man is not §2only washed with the imputation of the blood of Christ, and the assurance of pardon, but also when he is washed from the stain of sin, when he is sanctified through the spirit, when sin is