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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.
Saul was well established;1 but when God had appointed a change of his Kingdom, that it should go from him to David, you see he brought it to pass. Though he were as strong as a Lyon, as David testifieth of him, though he had many ⟨p. 87⟩children to inherit the Crown, though the people clave fast to him (you do not find that ever they rose up in rebellion against him) yet when God had appointed such a time to pass over him and his house, all that strength, all that fitness and preparation that was in him, and his family to continue the Kingdom to his posterity, it could not turn aside Gods Counsel, but it came to pass.
Saul was well established;1 but when God had appointed a change of his Kingdome, that it should go from him to David, you see he brought it to passe. Though he were as strong as a Lyon, as David testifieth of him, though hee had many ⟨p. 87⟩children to inherit the Crowne, though the people claue fast to him (you doe not finde that ever they rose vp in rebellion against him) yet when God had appointed such a time to passe over him and his house, all that strength, all that fitnes and preparation that was in him, and his familie to continue the Kingdome to his posteritie, it could not turne aside Gods Counsell, but it came to passe.
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Ely had a great family, there were many Priests of his line; yet when God had said he would cut off from Ely his whole family, and would turn the Priesthood to another, you see how he found out means to bring it to pass; how many Priests were killed in one day by Dveg in the time of Saul? and afterwards, when Abiathar, one of that posterity, was took in, by David, yet he was cast out by Solomon, through an accident that fell out in his adherence to Adoniah.