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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.
First, I will show you the reasons, why God doth thus for a time, why thus he disposeth all things for a certain season.
First, I will shew you the reasons, why God doth thus for a time, why thus he disposeth all things for a certaine season.
And secondly, I will show you this, that though he do thus for a season, yet certainly, he is All-sufficient; To the good it shall go well, and it shall go ill with the sinners.
And secondly, I will shew you this, that though he doe thus for a season, yet certainely, he is All-sufficient; To the good it shall goe well, and it shall goe ill with the sinners.
First,1 I say, God doth thus for a time: And why? One reason is;2 That God may try the faith and sincerity of men; for if when men have sinned, God should smite presently, if when they do well, God should reward them presently, they would be ⟨p. 51⟩drawn to well-doing, and from evil-doing, not by sincerity and by faith, but by sense. Now the Lord therefore defers it, he puts it off, that those that are proved, may be known, that what men do out of sincerity may appear to be so, that men may live by faith, and not by sense, that men might be drawn to live by right respects, and not by sensual and carnal respects; as they would do, if either his punishments were presently, or his rewards.