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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.
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.
In the third place,1 If men of the greatest sufficiencie and abilitie may o•ten be disappointed, that the battaile is not alwayes to the strong, 2nor the race to the swift, This should teach vs then not to be lifted vp, but to be thankefulls in our best successe, and on the contrary, not to be over-much dejected, but to beare it patiently, when things speed ill. If any man haue good successe in any busines and enterprise, he is not to attribute it to his owne strength, to his own wisedome; since that, as you see, so often failes. ⟨p. 98⟩The Creature hath not power enough in it selfe to bring any enterprise to passe, it can neither see all the wheeles, that tend to make vp an enterprise, or though it see them, it is not able to turne them all. And therefore if it be done, it is the Lord that doth it, and the prayse is onely to be given to him.