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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.
See it in the sin of Joab; you know he committed the sin of murder, when he killed Ab•er; it lay a-sleep you know many years. The ⟨p. 65⟩sentence went out from Gods Law, God and his own Conscience was against him, but yet it was not executed, till he was full of grey hairs; his grey hairs went down to the grave, not in peace, but in blood.
See it in the sinne of Ioab; you know he committed the sinne of murther, when he killed Ab•er; it lay a-sleepe you know many yeares. The ⟨p. 65⟩sentence went out from Gods Law, God and his owne Conscience was against him, but yet it was not executed, till he was full of gray haires; his gray haires went downe to the graue, not in peace, but in bloud.
So likewise in the sin of Saul; when he brake the oath with the Gibeonites, the sin continued forty years unpunished; the Lord suffered it; the sentence went out against him, as soon as it was committed, but yet it lay a-sleep; The Lord did not execute the sentence till forty years after, as we see by computation: for it was all the Reign of David to the latter end, and most part of Sauls Reign.
So likewise in the sinne of Saul; when he brake the oath with the Gibeonites, the sinne continued fortie yeares vnpunished; the Lord suffered it; the sentence went out against him, as soone as it was committed, but yet it lay a-sleepe; The Lord did not execute the sentence till fortie yeares after, as we see by computation: for it was all the Raigne of David to the latter end, and most part of Sauls Raigne.