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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.
What not? But the greater the blessing is, the more it is steeped in Preventing Love. There are outward blessings, and there are inward blessings, there are temporal blessings, and there are eternal blessings; Now though the preventing love of God doth shine forth in all, yet the greater the blessing or the mercy is, the more it is irradiated with the beams of preventing Love.
Will ye instance?
1. First, Will ye instance in the great matter of our Redemption? What greater mercy or blessing then our Redemption, in and by Jesus Christ? that's of Grace; in whom we have Redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, according to the riches of his Grace. And when Christ came into the World in reference to our Redemption to take our Nature upon him, do but see what a pack of wicked men were then extant upon the ground, in the Luke 3.1. Now in the fifteenth year of the Reign of Tiberius Caesar, (there s one) Pontius Pilate being Governor of Judea, (there's another) and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee, (there's another) and his Brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, Annas and Caiaphas being High-Priests, the Word of God came unto John the Son of Zechariah in the Wilderness. And why was Christ born in such a time as this, and among such Company, but all to show, that the work of our Redemption was to be carried on in a way of Preventing Love.
1. First, Will ye instance in the great matter of our Redemption? What greater mercy or blessing then our Redemption, in and by Jesus Christ? that's of Grace; in whom we have Redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, according to the riches of his Grace. And when Christ came into the World in reference to our Redemption to take our Nature upon him, do but see what a pack of wicked men were then extant upon the ground, in the