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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.
If you go from that,1 and look upon other things that seem to be least subject to vanity, as wisdom and knowledge;2 It is true, these seem to be least subject to vanity, and the Wise man acknowledgeth ⟨p. 73⟩it,3 for, saith he, wisdom is better §1then folly, as light is better then darkness, yet there is vanity in that: for, first there is a weariness in getting it. Again, there is a grief in having, in using,4 and enjoying it: for a wise man sees much §2amiss, but that which is crooked he cannot make straight. To see evil under the Sun, and not to be able to amend it, it doth but increase a mans sorrow; and that is the wise mans misery.
If you goe from that,1 and looke vpon other things that seeme to be least subject to vanitie, as wisedome and knowledge;2 It is true, these seeme to be least subject to vanitie, and the Wiseman acknowledgeth ⟨p. 73⟩it,3 for, sayth he, wisedome is better §1then follie, as light is better then darkenes, yet there is vanitie in that: for, first there is a wearinesse in getting it. Againe, there is a griefe in having, in vsing,4 and enioying it: for a wise man sees much