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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.
But these places will be the clearer, if you compare them with Isa. 28. 24. saith the Lord there,1 Doth the plough-man plough all the day? Rather, saith he, when he hath ploughed enough, (mark it) when he hath broken the clods, then he casts in the seed, &c. And who hath caused the plough-man to do this. Is it not I the Lord? If the Lord hath put this wisdom into the plough-man, that he ploughs not all day, but when he hath ploughed the ground enough, he stays the plough, and sows the seed, ⟨p. 61⟩will not the Lord do so with his Church? therefore, Beloved, be not discouraged, let not your hearts fail, though you see him ploughing of the Church, though he suffer the enemy to prevail against it; for in due time the Lord will cut their cords. You have a clear place for it Deut. 32. 35. 2where speaking of the enemies of the Church, saith he, his foot shall slide in due time, (that is the expression there) that is, perhaps you may complain, and think it too long, but it is not too long; If it were any sooner, it would be too soon: in due time, saith the Lord, it shall be, in due time his foot shall slide. 3Yet a little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry; it is but a little, a little time indeed. You know that is too long, that tarries beyond the appointed time, beyond that measure, that should be set to it; when the Lord doth it in due time, it is not too long. He that shall come, that is, he that shall surely come, will come, and will not tarry, that is, he will not tarry a jot beyond the due time, and season, that season, that is fittest for the Church, and for the enemies of the Church.
But these places will be the clearer, if you compare them with Isa. 28. 24. sayth the Lord there,1