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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,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.
First,1 I say, God doth thus for a time: And why? One reason is;2 That God may try the faith and sinceritie of men; for if when men haue sinned, God should smite presently, if when they doe well, God should reward them presently, they would be ⟨p. 51⟩drawne to well-doing, and from evill-doing, not by sinceritie and by faith, but by sence. Now the Lord therefore deferres it, he puts it off, that those that are proved, may be knowne, that what men doe out of sinceritie may appeare to be so, that men may liue by faith, and not by sence, that men might be drawne to liue by right respects, and not by sensuall and carnall respects; as they would doe, if either his punishments were presently, or his rewards.
- 1Reas. 1.
- 2To try men.To trie men.