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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,1 let men learn from hence. Not to boast of any outward strength, of any wisdom,2 in that their foundation is made strong under them, that they are well bottomed, that they are thus compassed about with friends, and estate &c. For you see though a man intends to get by all things, yet the event and success comes not to pass accordingly, but oft they fail and disappoint him. Therefore let not men boast of them; be a man never so strong, never so wise, yet he may as soon fail as he that is weak, and most foolish.
First,1 let men learne from hence. Not to boast of any outward strength, of any wisedome,2 in that their foundation is made strong vnder them, that they are well bottomed, that they are thus compassed about with friends, and estate &c. For you see though a man intends to get by all things, yet the event and successe comes not to passe accordingly, but oft they faile and disappoint him. Therefore let not men boast of them; be a man never so strong, never so wise, yet hee may as soone faile as he that is weake, and most foolish.
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- 2Not to boast of outward things.
See an example of it in Asa. 2. Cron. 14. 6. 7. 8.1 You may see there how he built the Cities, he had made him strong Bulwarks. There was not a King of Judah, that we read of, that had strengthened himself more then he; he had five hundred and fourscore thousand valiant men, all well armed and appointed to bear the shield and Spear; (The text sets it down very particularly, that we might see Asa's safety, his strength and his security, if you look upon the creature) yet saith the text the Ethiopians came against him, with a thousand thousand men; whence I gather this. That there is no man so safe and so strong, but he is still subject to danger, and that partly by reason of the vanity of the creature. For all the strength that a man hath, it is but the strength of the creature, and the creature is made of such brittle ingredients, that of it self it is ready to moulder away and fail. There is not