A09990:793
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.
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.
Because all things come alike to all, sayth the Wiseman, 1(but there he names onely the good and the bad, the holy and the vnholy) men will be readie to say, as every man is; howsoever holinesse, and vnholinesse, make not this difference in the event of things, yet the naturall strength of men, their naturall weaknesse, their naturall abilitie, or their vnabilitie, their wisedome, or their folly, that disposeth, or indisposeth men in the event of things. And therefore the Wiseman, when he had finished that former conclusion, whereof we spake, that there is one event to the good, and bad, he fals vpon the second vanitie, that he saw vnder the Sun, that not onely, as he sayth, All things come alike to all, that is, to the holy and vnholy, but likewise, to those that haue naturall strength, and those that are subject to naturall weakenes; even in this case also, sayth he, all things come alike to all.
- 1Ob.
For I have seen that the race is not always to the swift, but sometimes to him that is not swift; the battle is not always to the strong, but sometimes to him that is weak; and bread, and favour, and riches, are not always to men of understanding and skill, but sometimes to men that are weak, and foolish, and want skill, &c.