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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.
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Neither doth man know his time.
This is added, partly as a second vanity, which Solomon saw under the Sun, and partly as a reason ⟨p. 105⟩of the former. For, saith he, though men be strong, and wise, yet there is a certain season to do things in, that they may mistake, which causeth them to fail; for man knows not his time: and from hence he draws this Consequence, because men know not their times, therefore they are snared in an evil time, because they know not the good time, when good actions should be done, therefore evil times come upon them suddenly, that is, they take them unawares; and this he illustrates by two Similitudes, They come upon them, saith he, as an evil net comes upon fishes, and as the snare upon the fowls. So that in these three propositions, you shall have the full meaning of these words; and these therefore we will handle distinctly.
This is added, partly as a second vanitie, which Salomon saw vnder the Sunne, and partly as a reason ⟨p. 105⟩of the former. For, sayth he, though men be strong, and wise, yet there is a certaine season to doe things in, that they may mistake, which causeth them to fayle; for man knowes not his time: and from hence he drawes this Consequence, because men know not their times, therefore they are snared in an evill time, because they know not the good time, when good actions should be done, therefore evill times come vpon them suddenly, that is, they take them vnawares; and this he illustrates by two Similitudes, They come vpon them, sayth he, as an evill net comes vpon fishes, and as the snare vpon the fowles. So that in these three propositions, you shall haue the full meaning of these words; and these therefore wee will handle distinctly.