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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.
Saith he,1 he that keeps the Commandment, shall know no evil thing, and the heart of the wise shall know the time and the Judgement: That is, he shall know when to give a seasonable admonition to a Prince, or to a great man; for, saith he, to every purpose there is a time and a Judgement, that is, there is a time and a discretion, (that is the meaning of the word in the original,) when any action is to be done, there is a certain exact time; If you go before it, or if you come after it, there is much danger in it, if you hit upon the just time, you are like to be successful in it; for to every purpose, there is a time, and a Judgement, because the misery of man is great upon him: That is, it is the Lords pleasure to appoint such a certain time to every purpose, and to every action, that he might discover to men that vanity to which they are subject, and likewise that he might inflict his Judgements upon them; The misery of man is great upon him, because every purpose hath a time.
Saith he,1 he that keepes the Commandement, shall know no evill thing, and the heart of the wise shall know the time and the Iudgement: That is, he shall know when to giue a seasonable admonition to a Prince, or to a great man; for, sayth he, to every purpose there is a time and a Iudgement, that is, there is a time and a discretion, (that is the meaning of the word in the originall,) when any actiō is to be done, there is a certaine exact time; If you goe before it, or if you come after it, there is much danger in it, if you hit vpon the iust time, you are like to be succesfull in it; for to every purpose, there is a time, and a Iudgement, because the miserie of man is great vpon him: That is, it is the Lords pleasure to appoint such a certaine time to every purpose, and to every action, that he might discover to men that vanitie to which they are subject, and likewise that he might inflict his Iudgements vpon them; The miserie of man is great vpon him, because every purpose hath a time.
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