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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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But before I come to the second, let me show you the Reasons in a word, why God hath appointed these times, God hath set these times: That is, God hath appointed such times for businesses, for every purpose;1 partly, because they cannot be done in another time: and therefore it is said to be an allotted time; If you take another time, you may labour, and labour in vain: As you see Eccles. 3. 9. 2after he had said, there is a time for every purpose, he adds this, and what profit hath he that works of the thing wherein he travels; As if he should say, If a man miss of these times, what profit is there of his work, though he travail never so diligently in it, if he miss his time, if he pitch not right upon his time, God works not with him, there is no concourse with him, so he labours in vain.
But before I come to the second, let me shew you the Reasons in a word, why God hath appointed these times, God hath set these times: That is, God hath appointed such times for busin•sses, for every purpose;1 partly, because they cannot be done in another time: and therefore it is said to be an allotted time; If you take another time, you may labour, and labour in vaine: As you see Eccles. 3. 9. 2after he had sayd, there is a time for every purpose, he addes this, and what profit hath he that workes of the thing wherein he travels; As if he should say, If a man misse of these times, what profit is there of his worke, though he travaile never so diligently in it, if he misse his time, if he pitch not right vpon his time, God workes not with him, there is no concourse with him, so he labours in vaine.
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