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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.
THE last time we spake to you, we handled the first and second verses of this Chapter, whence there may be this Objection made against Gods All-sufficiency; All things come alike to all, to the just, and to the wicked, &c. And indeed when ⟨p. 70⟩•en see this Conclusion, that it is to the wicked, according to the work of the just, and to the just, according to the work of the wicked, it must needs stand as a strong objection against the doctrine of Gods All-sufficiency. How that objection is answered, hath been fully declared to you; Now there comes another objection like the former.
THE last time wee spake to you, we handled the first and second verses of this Chapter, whence there may be this Objection made against Gods All-sufficiencie; All things come alike to all, to the iust, and to the wicked, &c. And indeed when ⟨p. 70⟩•en see this Conclusion, that it is to the wicked, according to the worke of the iust, and to the iust, according to the worke of the wicked, it must needes stand as a strong objection against the doctrine of Gods All-sufficiencie. How that objection is answered, hath beene fully declared to you; Now there comes another objection like the former.
Because all things come alike to all, saith the Wise man, 1(but there he names only the good and the bad, the holy and the unholy) men will be ready to say, as every man is; howsoever holiness, and unholiness, make not this difference in the event of things, yet the natural strength of men, their natural weakness, their natural ability, or their unabilitie, their wisdom, or their folly, that disposeth, or indisposeth men in the event of things. And therefore the Wise man, when he had finished that former conclusion, whereof we spake, that there is one event to the good, and bad, he falls upon the second vanity, that he saw under the Sun, that not only, as he saith, All things come alike to all, that is, to the holy and unholy, but likewise, to those that have natural strength, and those that are subject to natural weakness; even in this case also, saith he, all things come alike to all.