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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.
Lastly a man may by this try himself whether 1he hath done it of no. For, as Solomon when he grew wise, after his repentance, he saw a vanity in all things under the Sun: So a man when his heart is once changed, he will see a vanity in all things.
Lastly a man may by this trie himselfe whether 1he hath done it of no. For, as Salomon when he grew wise, after his repentance, he saw a vanitie in all things vnder the Sunne: So a man when his heart is once changed, he will see a vanitie in all things.
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If there be any thing wherein thou seest not a ⟨p. 80⟩vanity, it is an argument thou art not yet a new creature. Paul saith, now know we no man after the flesh; for whosoever is in Christ, is a new creature; as if he should say, when any man is a new creature; he looketh upon all things under the Sun with an other eye, he judgeth of them with another judgment; and therefore if thou find it otherwise, if thou look upon the world, or upon any thing, that is in the world, as upon things that are precious, that is a sign that Satan hath bewitched thee. You know it was one (of the witcheries that he attempted upon our Saviour, he showed him the world, the kingdoms and glory of it, and so he doth to every man more or less, he shows him some thing or other, and if a man do not see the emptiness and vanity of them, but sees a glory in them, he hath yielded to Satan who hath bewitched him, and prevailed over him: and therefore when you look on every thing under the Sun, riches, credit, wisdom, skill, knowledge, if you look on all as on flowers, if you see a vanity, and an emptiness in them, that is a sign you are now changed, that you are now turned to God by unfeigned repentance, that you see a vanity in all things under the Sun: So much for this first point.