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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.
And so likewise in the manner of the punishment: there are punishments of divers sorts, some are more secret punishments, some are more scandalous, some are taken out for examples, that others may fear; others he lets alone, and makes them not examples. This liberty he useth in the dispending of his punishments; and the like he doth in his rewards. Some he rewards openly for their well-doing, that others might be encouraged; Some men he suffers to wait a long time, and there comes no present reward; he shall have ⟨p. 50⟩it, he shall have a reward according to his works; but yet this liberty God useth in the dispensation of it.
And so likewise in the manner of the punishment: there are punishments of divers sorts, some are more secret punishments, some are more scandalous, some are taken out for examples, that others may feare; others he lets alone, and makes them not examples. This libertie he vseth in the dispending of his punishments; and the like he doth in his rewards. Some he rewards openly for their well-doing, that others might be incouraged; Some men he suffers to waite a long time, and there comes no present reward; he shall haue ⟨p. 50⟩it, he shall haue a reward according to his works; but yet this libertie God vseth in the dispensation of it.
The use we should make of it is this;1 If this be so, then let us not be offended, let us not think, that God is not therefore All-sufficient, because he deals sometimes with the righteous according to the works of the wicked, sometimes with the wicked according to the works of the righteous; for you see, he will be All-sufficient, he will keep the substance of this rule, he will reward every man according to his work, he will make good his All-sufficiency in performing his promises to them, that belong to him; and again, he will make good all his threatenings to those that are enemies to him.