A77360:100
Christ and the covenant the work and way of meditation
Christ and the covenant the work and way of meditation. : Gods return to the soul, or nation; together with his preventing mercy. : Delivered in ten sermons, (viz.) 1. Christs personal excellencies, the object of our love. 2. Christ crucified, the object of our faith. 3. The new covenant of grace opened. 4. Christ the mediator of the new covenant. 5. The way and spirit of the new covenant, or New Testament. 6. The blood of sprinkling. 7. The sweetness and profitableness of divine meditation. 8. The work and way of this meditation. 9. Gods return to the soul and nation. 10. Preventing mercy. / By W.B.
London: printed for N. Ranew, 1667
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.
1. Be sure that you be really, conjugally united unto Christ: There is a double union, —There is a union •y way of juxta-position, laying one thing to another: […] a man's Arm is united unto Bread, when the Bread ⟨p. 20⟩is bound to his Arm. — There is a union by way o• Intus-susception, by taking in; and so a man is united to his Bread, and his Bread to him, when he eats it, they are made one.
1. Be sure that you be really, conjugally united unto •hrist: There is a double union, —There is a union •y way of juxta-position, laying one thing to another: 〈…〉 a man's Arm is united unto Bread, when the Bread ⟨p. 20⟩is bound to his Arm. — There is a union by way o• Intus-susception, by taking in; and so a man is united to his Bread, and his Bread to him, when he eats it, they are made one.
So there is a double union (as I may so speak) to Christ; one whereby men are united to Christ by the external Ligaments of the Gospel, concerning whom our Saviour may speak in John 15. Every branch in m• that beareth not fruit, shall be cast out: —And then ther• is another union with Christ, which is that he speak• of, He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, shal• live, that's another kind of union, a closer union […] Now if you be really, conjugally united to Christ you will love not only his benefits, but you will lov his Person: Rest not therefore, I pray you, in this external union with Christ by the Ligaments of th Gospel, but labour more and more to be conjugal united to Jesus Christ. But