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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.
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.
The vse we should make of it is this;1 If this be so, then let vs not be offended, let vs not thinke, that God is not therefore All-suff•cient, because he deales sometimes with the righteous according to the workes of the wicked, sometimes with the wicked according to the workes of the righteous; for you see, he will be All-sufficient, he will keepe the substance of this rule, he will reward every man according to his worke, he will make good his All-sufficiencie in performing his promises to them, that belong to him; and againe, he will make good all his threatnings to those that are enemies to him.
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But now for the time of his dispensation, and administration of things, it is true, he takes a liberty to himself. And to make this the clearer to you, I will do these two things.
But now for the time of his dispensation, and administratiō of things, it is true, he takes a libertie to himselfe. And to make this the clearer to you, I will doe these two things.