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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.
First, in that he is a Buckler, to keep us from all evil,1 that is one part of his All-sufficiency, which he communicates to us, that he will suffer no evil to come near us, he is a Buckler that compasseth us round about: that speech is delivered upon this occasion, when Abraham had gone out to war against those Kings that came out against Sodom, the Lord delivered him, and after this deliverance he tells him, Abraham, saith he, as I have dealt with thee at this time, so fear not, when thou •allest into the like distress; for, I am the Buckler, I will defend thee from all evil, as I have done from this. Now, he is such a Buckler, that no creature can pierce though, he is such ⟨p. 43⟩a Buckler as covers us all over, he is a wall of Brass, as it is expressed in Jer. 1. 18.2 not so only; but he is said to be a wall of fire about his children. That is. He is not only a wall that keeps them safe, but a wall of fire to consume all them that come against them: for a fire, you know, doth not only defend those that are within the compass of it, but it burns those that come near it Such a one is God to his children; And that is one thing wherein this all-sufficiency consists, that God communicates to them.
First, in that he is a Buckler, to keepe vs from all evill,1 that is one part of his All-sufficience, which he communicates to vs, that he will suffer no evill to come neare vs, he is a Buckler that compasseth vs round about: that speech is delivered vpon this occasion, when Abraham had gone out to warre against those Kings that came out against Sod•m, the Lord delivered him, and after this deliverance he tells him, Abraham, sayth he, as I haue dealt with thee at this time, so feare not, when thou •allest into the like distreffe; for, I am the Buckler, I will defend thee from all evill, as I have done from this. Now, he is such a Buckler, that no creature can peirce though, he is such