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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.
Doth one condition fall to all,1 both good and ⟨p. 67⟩bad? Then you may gather hence,2 that all the good things, and all the evil things, that befall us in this life, they are neither truly good nor truly evil, they are but shadows of both; for if the Lord send adversity upon good men, if he send prosperity to evil men; If there were true evil in adversity, God would never do it, if there were any true goodness in prosperity, he would never do it, but when he dispenseth these things so promiscuously, it is an argument they are not such as men account them, they are but shadows of good things, and of evil, Larvae et spectra, &c. that is, they are not the substance of good things, neither of good nor evil. Let not righteous men therefore say they are miserable, when they fall into any kind of outward misery, whatsoever the condition be, it is not evil, if it were, it should never befall thee. Again, let not a wicked man say, he is happy, because of his outward condition, for if it were truly good, thou shouldest never enjoy it. When God dispenseth those things so promiscuously, it is an argument, that they are neither good nor evil, that is, that there is no substance of true good or evil in them.
Doth one condition fall to all,1 both good and ⟨p. 67⟩bad? Then you may gather hence,2 that all the good things, and all the evill things, that befall vs in this life, they are neither truely good nor truely evill, they are but shadowes of both; for if the Lord send adversitie vpon good men, if he send prosperitie to evill men; If there were true evill in adversitie, God would never doe it, if there were any true goodnesse in prosperitie, he would never doe it, but when he dispenceth these things so promiscuously, it is an argument they are not such as men account them, they are but shadowes of good things, and of evill, Larvae et spectra, &c. that is, they are not the substance of good things, neither of good nor evill. Let not righteous men therefore say they are miserable, when they fall into any kinde of outward miserie, whatsoever the condition be, it is not evill, if it were, it should never befall thee. Agine, let not a wicked man say, he is happie, because of his outward condition, for if it were truely good, thou shouldest never inioy it. When God dispenceth those things so promiscuously, it is an argument, that they are neither good nor evill, that is, that there is no substance of true good or evill in them.