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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.
You shall find evil men may fear by fits. Ahab feared, when Elijah brought a terrible message to him, he feared and humbled himself: So Pharaoh feared, when Moses brought upon him those heavy judgements, and plagues; but these fears of theirs were as mists, which cleared up again, that continued not; and therefore you have that ⟨p. 31⟩expression in the Proverbs, Blessed is the man that feareth always; as if he should say,1 by this we show the sincerity of our fear, that we do not fear by fits, but fear always.
You shall finde evill men may feare by fits. Ahab feared, when Eliah brought a terrible message to him, he feared and humbled himselfe: So Phar•oh feared, when Moses brought vpon him those heavie iudgements, and plagues; but these feares of theirs were as mists, which cleared vp againe, that continued not; and therefore you haue that ⟨p. 31⟩expression in the Proverbes, Blessed is the man that feareth alwayes; as if he should say,1 by this we shew the sinceritie of our feare, that we doe not feare by fits, but feare alwayes.
- 1Prov. 2•. 14.
The ground of it is this; such a man fears only the wrath of God, he feare• only the evil, and therefore when that is taken away, he fears no more; but with the godly man it is quite contrary, he fears the Lord and his goodness,