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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.
Besides, when a man fears, he not only fears the thing, but that which may make way to it: for fear, you know, sets the heart to prevent evil to come; the object of it, 18, Malum •uturum, whereas the object of grief, is present evil; so it is also with those that fear sin. Put the case, sin be far off from a man, yet if he fear it, he will not come near the occasions, that might lead him to it,1 but keeps himself far from it (as in Exod. we are commanded, keep thy self far from an evil matter,) he dares not suffer his thoughts to wander, he dares no gaze upon unlawful objects, he dares not come into company with them, that will infect him, he dares not come near the train, though he be far off the blow. Thus a man is affected that fears. And hence it is that when a man is possessed with a disposition of fear, he doth not only fear for a fit, but if it be a thing that he naturally fears, it is a constant fear, he fears it at all times.
Besides, when a man feares, he not onely feares the thing, but that which may make way to it: for feare, you know, sets the heart to prevent evill to come; the object of it, 18, Malum •uturum, whereas the object of griefe, is present evill; so it is also with those that feare sinne. Put the case, sinne be farre off from a man, yet if he feare it, he will not come neere the occasions, that might leade him to it,1 but keepes himselfe farre from it (as in Exod. we are commanded, keepe thy selfe farre from an evill matter,) he dares not suffer his thoughts to wander, he dares no gaze vpon vnlawfull objects, he dares not come into company with them, that will infect him, he dares not come neare the traine, though he be farre off the blow. Thus a man is affected that feares. And hence it is that when a man is possessed with a disposition of feare, he doth not onely feare for a fit, but if it be a thing that he naturally feares, it is a constant feare, he feares it at all times.