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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.
So, either they think sins not to be sins, or else they think them not so heinous, that they do not draw so fearful judgements after them. Thus men, because the same Events are to all alike, have therefore their hearts set in them to do evil.
So, either they thinke sinnes not to be sinnes, or else they thinke them not so hainous, that they doe not draw so fearefull judgements after them. Thus men, because the same Events are to all alike, haue therefore their •earts set in them to doe evill.
Now for Answer to that,1 saith the Wise-man, though execution be deferred, the sentence is not deferred, The sentence is past against an evil work, though it be not speedily executed: As if he should say, it is little comfort for thee when thou hast provoked God to anger, that thou art not presently punished; for the sentence is gone out against thee, thou art an accursed man, th•u art condemned and shut up in Prison, it is only the execution that is deferred; and therefore is it that he saith, because the sentence against evil doers is not speedily executed, therefore think with thy self, whosoever thou art that emboldenest thy self in thy present safety, it is but a deferring of the execution; thou art not in a better condition then others; only the judgement is executed on the one sooner, on the other later.
Now for Answer to that,1 sayth the Wise-man, though execution be deferred, the sentence is not deferred, The sentence is past against an evill worke, though it be not speedily executed: As if hee should say, it is little comfort for thee when thou hast provoked God to anger, that thou art not presently punished; for the sentence is gone out against thee, thou art an accursed man, th•u art condemned and shut vp in Prison, it is onely the execution that is deferred; and therefore is it that he sayth, because the sentence against evill doers is not speedily executed, therefore thinke with thy selfe, whosoever thou art that emboldenest thy selfe in thy present safetie, it is but a deferring of the execution; thou art not in a better condition then others; onely the judgement is executed on the one sooner, on the other later.