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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.
First, we are to consider the phrase here used in the beginning, I returned, and saw, saith he, under the Sun, that the race is not to the swift, &c. That is, as if he should say; when I looked about me, and turned my self every way, and looked upon the whole frame of the Creatures, I saw a vanity in every corner, in every place, I saw a va•itie even in things, that seem least to be subject to vanity: Whence we will gather this point,1 that
First, we are to consider the phrase here vsed in the beginning, I returned, and saw, sayth he, vnder the Sun, that the race is not to the swift, &c. That is, as if he should say; when I looked about me, and turned my selfe every way, and looked vpon the whole frame of the Creatures, I saw a vanitie in every corner, in every place, I saw a va•itie even in things, that seeme least to be subject to vanitie: Whence we will gather this poynt,1 that
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