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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.
Again; The ordinances of God heal the soul; They heal the distempers of it, they compose it and put it into a good frame of grace:1 as in Job 15. 3. 4. saith Eliphas there to Job, dost thou dispute with words not comely, &c. with talk that is not profitable, surely, saith he, thou restrainest prayer from the Almighty; As if he should say, Job, if thou diddest pray, thou wouldest not fall into these distempered speeches, as thou dost; thy heart would not be so disordered, thou wouldest not be so passionate and froward, as thou art; therefore surely thou restrainest prayer. Whence I gather, that duties performed as they should be, compose the heart, and heal those d•stempers.
Againe; The ordinances of God heale the soule; They heale the distempers of it, they compose it and put it into a good frame of grace:1 as in Iob 15. 3. 4. sayth Eliphas there to Iob, dost thou dispute with words not comely, &c. with talke that is not profitable, surely, sayth he, thou restrainest prayer from the Almightie; As if he should say, Iob, if thou diddest pray, thou wouldest not fall into these distempered speeches, as thou dost; thy heart would not be so disordered, thou wouldest not be so passionate and froward, as thou art; therefore surely thou restrainest prayer. Whence I gather, that duties performed as they should be, compose the heart, and heale those d•stempers.