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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 time of a mans health, and of his peace, of his life, quiet, and rest, is the time of making sure his Election, a time of growing in grace and knowledge, and of growing rich in good works. He whose eyes God opens to see this time, he makes use of it, he lays out those talents he hath to such a purpose, but when God hides it from a man, it is his undoing, an evil time, the time of death comes suddenly upon him, as a snare on the fowl.
The time of a mans health, and of his peace, of his life, quiet, and rest, is the time of making sure his Election, a time of growing in grace and knowledge, and of growing rich in good workes. He whose eyes God opens to see this time, he makes vse of it, he layes out those talents he hath to such a purpose, but when God hides it from a man, it is his vndoing, an evill time, the time of death comes suddenly vpon him, as a snare on the fowle.
The time of youth, the time of education, is the seed-time of our life after; he whom God hath enlightened to see this time, and to consider it, he is not negligent i• it, he lays up the ground and foundation of his future li•e in it. Such like times there be.
The time of youth, the time of education, is the seede-time of our life after; he whom God hath inlightned to see this time, and to consider it, he is not negligent i• it, he layes vp the ground and foundation of his future li•e in it. Such like times there be.