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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.
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 ⟨p. 32⟩mortified in him, when it is as well healed, as forgiven. And therefore if thou wouldest know whether thou art a clean man or polluted, consider also this, whether thou hast a clean heart or no, that is, whether thou hast such an habitual disposition of purity and cleanness, that thou canst not endure to look upon any sin, no more then a man, that is of a neat and clean disposition, can endure to see filthiness, whether thou hast such a disposition, as that although thou be sprinkled with sin from day to day, though thou be fowled and spotted with it, yet thou sufferest it not to abide in thy heart; thy heart works it out, as we said to you before.
The second cleannesse, is, when a man is not §2onely washed with the imputation of the bloud of Christ, and the assurance of pardon, but also when he is washed from the staine of sinne, when he is sanctified through the spirit, when sinne is ⟨p. 32⟩mortified in him, when it is as well healed, as forgiven. And therefore if thou wouldest know whether thou art a cleane man or polluted, consider also this, whether thou hast a cleane heart or no, that is, whether thou hast such an habituall disposition of puritie and cleannesse, that thou canst not indure to looke vpon any sinne, no more then a man, that is of a neate and cleane disposition, can indure to see filthines, whether thou hast such a disposition, as that although thou be sprinkled with sinne from day to day, though thou be fowled and spotted with it, yet thou sufferest it not to abide in thy heart; thy heart workes it out, as we sayd to you before.