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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.
As for example;1 He suffered Pharaoh a long time to plough the Church; you know how long he afflicted it, you know what long furrows he made upon it; but yet when the period was come, the period that God had set, the fit time, then God cut his traces, that is, he suffered him to plough no longer, but destroyed him.
As for example;1 He suffered Pharach a long time to plowe the Church; you know how long he afflicted it, you know what long furrowes he made vpon it; but yet when the period was come, the period that God had set, the fit time, then God cut his traces, that is, he suffered him to plowe no longer, but destroyed him.
- 1Instances of the wicked.
And so H•man in the story of Esther, he ploughed the Church a while, till it came to the very point, to the exigent, that he should have swallowed it up, and then he was taken off from ploughing any longer, then the Lord cut his cords, and set his Church at liberty.
And so H•man in the story of Hester, he plowed the Church a while, till it came to the very poynt, to the exigent, that he should haue swallowed it vp, and then he was taken off from plowing any longer, then the Lord cut his cords, and set his Church at libertie.