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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.
Therefore (to proceed a little further) let not holy men be discouraged,1 because they see things go ill with the Churches; be not discouraged at it; for it shall be well with them in due season. You shall see Psal. 129. 3.2 that the Lord suffers evil men to plough the Church, and to make long furrows on the back of it; but yet, saith he, in the fourth verse; The Lord will cut the cords of the wicked; He will cut their traces, they plough long, and make deep furrows; but yet the Lord at length cuts the cords of the wicked. The horses that draw the plough, as long as the traces hold, they draw; but when they are cut, they can draw no longer; So the Lord will do, he suffers the Church to be ploughed, when they do not Judge themselves, wh•• they do not plough themselves, when they do not humble themselves, then he sets the enemies of the Church to plough them, and to humble their souls, and this he doth for a certain season; but when he hath done, he cuts their traces, he cuts their cords, and that in due season.
Therefore (to proceede a little further) let not holy men be discouraged,1 because they see things goe ill with the Churches; be not discouraged at it; for it shall be well with them in due season. You shall see Psal. 129. 3.2 that the Lord suffers evill men to plough the Church, and to make long furrowes on the backe of it; but yet, sayth he, in the fourth verse; The Lord will cut the cords of the wicked; He will cut their traces, they plow long, and make deepe furrowes; but yet the Lord at length cuts the cords of the wicked. The horses that draw the plough, as long as the traces hold, they draw; but when they are cut, they can draw no longer; So the Lord will doe, he suffers the Church to be plowed, when they doe not Iudge themselues, wh•• they doe not plowe themselues, when they doe not humble themselues, then he sets the enemies of the Church to plowe them, and to humble their soules, and this he doth for a certaine season; but when he hath done, he cuts their traces, he cuts their cords, and that in due season.