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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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Again, for all private actions, as well as for those that are public, there is a time, that is, not a time which man in prudence will choose out but a time which God hath appointed, a time which God hath set down; if a man hit upon that time which God hath allotted, he shall succeed in it, ots•erwise he fails. So you see Act. 17. 26. 1he hath made of one blood all mankind to dwell upon the face of the earth, and hath assigned the times that were ordained before, and the bounds ⟨p. 108⟩of their habitations; That is to say, the times of every man, the times for every mans state and condition, the times for the several changes to which every man, every Common-wealth, and every City is subject, these times God hath assigned, he hath ordained them before, and they are as bounds that cannot be passed. The like you see Job 14. 5. 6.2 Are not his days determined, and the number of his months with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. (Mark it) As if he should say; There is not a man comes into the world, but God hath appointed him certain bounds, he cannot pass the number of his months; That even as a man deals with an hireling, (for that Similitude he useth presently after in the next verse,) he agrees with him for such a time; So long you shall work and no longer; So saith he, God hath appointed every man so many months, so many years, he must do him service, some ten years, some twenty years, some forty years: As you see it is said of David, Act. 13. 35.3 When he had served his time by the Counsel of God. As if he should say; There is an appointed time that David had to do him service in, he did him service as a King. And so in the same Chapter, it is said, John Baptist, when he had finished his course, &c. That is; There was a certain race that he was to run; he could not come short of it, nor he could not go beyond it. So that both to the actions of men, to every purpose, to every action, and business that is done in the life of a man, there is a certain time appointed, there is