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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.
So that this you are to observe, to find out the cleanness of a mans disposition, whether he can look upon sin, as an unclean thing, as a thing from which his soul hath an aversion, as a thing that he abhors, that is, although there be some thing in him, that loves it, that delights in it, that likes it, yet the prevailing part of the soul abhors it. Both the clean and polluted may forsake sin, and may turn away from sin, and therefore in that the difference is not seen, but the difference is in this, that thou art able to hate and abhor sin, to look on it as a thing that is filthy and unclean.1 A Merchant, you know, will cast out his goods, when he is in danger of his life, but he hates not his goods; So a man may cast away sin, when it puts him in danger of •inking into hell, or of the judgements of men. It is one thing to part with sin, and another thing to hate sin.
So that this you are to obserue, to finde out the cleannesse of a mans disposition, whether he can looke vpon sinne, as an vncleane thing, as a thing from which his soule hath an aversion, as a thing that he abhorres, that is, although there be some thing in him, that loues it, that delights in it, that likes it, yet the prevailing part of the soule abhorres it. Both the cleane and polluted may forsake sinne, and may turne away from sinne, and therfore in that the difference is not seene, but the difference is in this, that thou art able to hate and abhorre sinne, to looke on it as a thing that is filthy and vncleane.1 A Marchant, you know, will cast out his goods, when he is in danger of his life, but he hates not his goods; So a man may cast away sinne, when it puts him in danger of •inking into hell, or of the judgements of men. It is one thing to part with sinne, and another thing to hate sinne.
- 1Simile.