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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
Part › Sermon 4: THE FOURTH SERMON.Part › Sermon 4: THE FOVRTH SERMON.
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.
ECCLESIASTES 9. 11. 1•. And I returned, and saw under the Sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, &c.
ECCLESIASTES 9. 11. 1•. And I returned, and sawe vnder the Sunne, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battaile to the strong, &c.
You know where we left, we proceed to that which remains.
YOu know where we left, we proceede to that which remaines.
In the third place,1 If men of the greatest sufficiency and ability may o•ten be disappointed, that the battle is not always to the strong, 2nor the race to the swift, This should teach us then not to be lifted up, but to be thankefulls in our best success, and on the contrary, not to be over-much dejected, but to bear it patiently, when things speed ill. If any man have good success in any business and enterprise, he is not to attribute it to his own strength, to his own wisdom; since that, as you see, so often fails. ⟨p. 98⟩The Creature hath not power enough in it self to bring any enterprise to pass, it can neither see all the wheels, that tend to make up an enterprise, or though it see them, it is not able to turn them all. And therefore if it be done, it is the Lord that doth it, and the praise is only to be given to him.