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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.
Lastly; They cleanse the heart, yea the heart of §7a young man, where lusts are strong, where the stain is deep, and will not out without Fullers soap,1 David Psal. 119. 9. saith, that the Word cleanseth the heart, &c. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his heart, &c.
Lastly; They cleanse the heart, yea the heart of §7a young man, where lusts are strong, where the staine is deepe, and will not out without Fullers sope,1 David Psal. 119. 9. sayth, that the Word clenseth the heart, &c. Wherewith shall a young man clense his heart, &c.
Now then examine thy self, whether thou so performest these ordinances, and holy duties, that God commands thee, that thou find these effects of them; If thou dost, then thou art one that sacrificeth, if otherwise, then thou art one that sacrificeth not; and therefore consider whether thy heart be warmed by them; If they be to thee as painted fire, such as hath no heat, thou dost not sacrifice, it is but an outward form; consider if they quicken thy heart, or if it be as dead, and as backward, and as indisposed to good duties, and as prone to things that are evil, after thou hast performed them as before, if so, though thou seem to sacrifice, yet thou art of the number of those that sacrifice not: dost thou find it doth not divide the flesh, and the spirit, that it is as a word without an edge, that it is as salt, that biteth not, which doth not cleanse the heart? it is an argument thou dost not perform them, as thou shouldest; for there is a sharpness in holy ordinances, that makes us sound in the faith, because it discovers to us the secret corruptions of the heart. Dost thou find thy lusts as strong, as they were? are they not cleansed out? it is a sign thou dost not use the scouring as thou shouldest; and so we may say of all the rest. Dost thou find the word to fall upon