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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; You shall find a difference in the object, the thing that they fear. When the fear of God, and the fear of men, shall come in competition, there is the trial; When a man shall be threatened by man with death, when he shall be threatened with the loss of his goods, the loss of liberty, the loss of any thing that is precious unto ⟨p. 44⟩to him, and on the other side▪ God shal• threaten eternal death. The question now i•, whether of the•e he will fear most? mortal man, whose breath is in his nostrils, or the eternal God, whether shall sway him most; The fear of man▪ which is a s•are on the one side, or the fear of God, and disobedience to him on the other side. When thou art put upon such a strait, […] a trial, that thou must offend one of them; consider what thou doest in this case. You know what Christ saith, fear not men, the […] that they can do, is but to take away life, but fear God, for he can cast thee into hell.
Againe; You shall finde a difference in the object, the thing that they feare. When the feare of God, and the feare of men, shall come in competition, there is the tryall; When a man shall be threatned by man with death, when he shall be threatned with the losse of his goods, the losse of libertie, the losse of any thing that is precious vnto ⟨p. 44⟩to him, and on the other side▪ God shal• threaten eternall death. The question now i•, whether of the•e he will feare most? mortall man, whose breath is in his nostrils, or the eternall God, whether shall sway him most; The feare of man▪ which is a s•are on the one side, or the feare of God, and disobedience to him on the other side. When thou art put vpon such a strait, a tryall, that thou must offend one of them; consider what thou doest in this case. You know what Christ sayth, feare not men, the that they can doe, is but to take away life, but feare God, for he can cast thee into hell.