The new covenant, or, The saints portion : a treatise unfolding the all-sufficiencie of God, mans uprightness, and the covenant of grace, delivered in fourteene sermons upon Gen. 17. 1.2. ; Whereunto are adioyned foure sermons upon Eccles. 9. 1.2, 11.12 (1631)
Preston, John, 1587-1628 · London : Printed by I. D. for Nicolas Bourne · leaf 20
l,theref oreI haucchofen this Text,that you may not be de-ceived. It is true j manythings are very excellentif they be right. There is no queftion but theDiamond is very precious, if it be a true Dia-mond, but if it be falfe, it is nothing worth :If you take a precious Balme, you make no que-ftion… … Sinceritie isrequired in allDuties. o F O D 8 The groundof iinceritie. concernes vs, to know whether they be right orcounterfeit • and therefore you fee the conditionthat God requires here of Abraham, is, that he bevfright, and perfect, without hypocri(ie\ (fotheword fignifieth) Walke before me…
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