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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.
Now, saith the Lord, all this, I have done, that I might lay it up; I have sealed it up among my treasures; for vengeance and recompense is mine: That is, therefore I have suffered all this, that I might draw forth all my treasures of wrath, which otherwise would be hidden, and never opened and manifested to the world.
Now, sayth the Lord, all this, I haue done, that I might lay it vp; I haue sealed it vp among my treasures; for vengeance and recompence is mine: That is, therefore I haue suffered all this, that I might draw forth all my treasures of wrath, which otherwise would be hidden, and never opened and manifested to the world.
The like he doth to the godly; he suffers them to go on, he suffers them to do well, and yet for all this he gives them no present reward, but leaves them to the malice of men, to the hand of the enemy, and suffers them to prevail against them, he suffers them to be in poverty, in persecution, in prison, to be taken away by death, &c. And why doth he suffer such variety of temptations to come to them?1 Jam. 1. because their grace, and their patience, and their faith might be more tried, that they might have a larger Reckoning. Math. 5. 10.2 Blessed are those that suffer for righteousness sake; and by this means he draws forth the treasures of his mercy. If the reward should be presently, it should not be so great a reward; but when he suffers any man to do well, and then lets him wait, by that means he takes occasion to be the more bountiful; as he saith to them,3