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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.
The second sort of actions,1 that we are to observe this time in, they are such as belong to others, that tend to the good of others, the good ⟨p. 118⟩of the Church, the good of the Common-wealth, the good of particular men; There is a time when (it may be) a mans voice, or suffrage would have turned the scale of a business, that concerned much the Common-wealth, or the society where he lives: but when that opportunity is past, it can be recalled no more. There is a time when a mans speaking may do much good, and his silence is sinful▪ and doth much hurt, by the loss it brings. Such times and seasons are to be observed, such opportunities there be. There is an opportunity of preventing a mischief to a Common-wealth, or to a Kingdom, when we neglect that opportunity, it causeth the misery of man to be great upon him, as we heard before. So for particular Cases; There is a time, and a season, and an opportunity of comforting the bowels of the Saints, of relieving and entertaining strangers, of doing good to parents, of educating, and bringing to God children and servants, such as are committed to our charge; This is but a short time, and opportunity, which when it is past, can be recalled no more. The missing of these times and opportunities, is that which causeth the misery of man to be great upon him. You know, at the day of Judgement, because men did not such, and such actions, because they lost their opportunity, they did not visit the prisoners, they did not clothe the naked, nor feed the hungry, therefore, this eternal misery falls upon them; Much more temporal miseries, upon a man, a Kingdom, or a King.
The second sort of actions,1 that we are to obserue this time in, they are such as belong to others, that tend to the good of others, the good ⟨p. 118⟩of the Church, the good of the Common-wealth, the good of particular men; There is a time when (it may be) a mans voyce, or suffrage would haue turned the scale of a busines, that cōcerned much the Common-wealth, or the societie where he liues: but when that opportunitie is past, it can be recalled no more. There is a time when a mans speaking may doe much good, and his silence is sinfull and doth much hurt, by the losse it brings. Such times and seasons are to be observed, such opportunities there be. There is an opportunitie of preventing a mischiefe to a Common-wealth, or to a Kingdome, when we neglect that opportunitie, it causeth the miserie of man to be great vpon him, as we heard before. So for particular Cases; There is a time, and a season, and an opportunitie of comforting the bowels of the Saints, of relieuing and entertaining strangers, of doing good to parents, of educating, and bringing to God children and servants, such as are committed to our charge; This is but a short time, and opportunitie, which when it is past, can be recalled no more. The missing of these times and opportunities, is that which causeth the miserie of man to be great vpon him. You know, at the day of Iudgement, because men did not such, and such actions, because they lost their opportunitie, they did not visit the prisoners, they did not cloath the naked, nor feede the hungry, therefore, this eternall miserie fals vpon them; Much more temporall miseries, vpon a man, a Kingdome, or a King.