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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.
But now for the perfection of works, for the doing of those things that are indeed commendable, good, and praise-worthy, is this also subject to vanity? Yes,1 says Solomon, Eccles. 4. 4.§3 I looked, and beheld the travails of men in the perfection of works, and I find this also to be the envy of a man against his neighbour: That is, this vanity it hath in it,2 that a man shall not have praise and love answerable to the perfection of his work, but he shall find the contrary, he shall have much envy for it; it shall cause the envy of a man against his neighbour.
But now for the perfection of workes, for the doing of those things that are indeede commendable, good, and prayse-worthy, is this also subject to vanitie? Yes,1 sayes Salomon, Eccles. 4. 4.§3 I looked, and beheld the travailes of men in the perfection of workes, and I finde this also to be the envie of a man against his neighbour: That is, this vanitie it hath in it,2 that a man shall not haue prayse and loue answerable to the perfection of his worke, but he shall finde the contrary, he shall haue much envie for it; it shall cause the envie of a man against his neighbour.
- 1Commendable actions. Eccle. 4. 4.
- 2Are envied.Are enuyed.