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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 third expression here used,1 is, he that sacrificeth,§3 and he that sacrificeth not. This is but a Synecdoche, where one particular is put for all other kinds of holy duties; But the meaning is this; you shall know a man by this, in which of the two conditions he is, he whose heart is upright with God, he dares not omit any holy ordinance, he dares not omit any sacrifice, he dares not perform ⟨p. 36⟩form them in a slight and negligent manner. He again whose heart is false, sacrificeth not, that is, either he omits the duty, or else he omits the substance and life of the duty. You know in Jam. 2. 10. 2he saith there, he that abideth in all, that keeps all the Commandments, and yet fails in one, he is guilty of all▪ and so you may say of the ordinances, he that keeps them, he that observeth them, but yet fails in one, it is argument enough, that he makes not Conscience of any. You shall find this true, that whosoever he is, that sacrificeth not, that is, he that prays not constantly, he that hears not, he that reads not the Scriptures, he that sanctifieth not Gods Sabbaths, he that partaketh not of the Sacraments, &c. he that useth not holy Conference, and fasting, and prayer in its season, such a man is in an evil condition; It is given here as a note of an evil man, he sacrificeth not.
The third expression here vsed,1 is, he that sacrificeth,§3 and he that sacrificeth not. This is but a Synecdoche, where one particular is put for all other kindes of holy duties; But the meaning is this; you shall know a man by this, in which of the two conditions he is, he whose heart is vpright with God, he dares not omit any holy ordinance, he dares not omit any sacrifice, he dares not performe ⟨p. 36⟩