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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 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 Heb. 10. 36. When you have done his will, you have need of patience: That is, the Lord still defers, that you might show your patience, that you might have the honour to suffer, as well as to do, and so he might show forth on you the riches, and the Treasures of his mercy.
The like he doth to the godly; he suffers them to goe on, he suffers them to doe well, and yet for all this hee giues them no present reward, but leaues them to the malice of men, to the hand of the enemy, and suffers them to prevaile against them, he suffers them to be in povertie, in persecution, in prison, to be taken away by death, &c. And why doth he suffer such varietie of temptations to come to them?1 Iam. 1. because their grace, and their patience, and their faith might be more tryed, that they might haue a larger Reckoning.