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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
Sermons › Sermon 2: Christ Crucified the object of our Faith. SERMON II.
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2. Look what that is, that all the Ceremonies, Sacrifices, and Types of the Old Testament, and all the Ordinances of the New Testament do hold forth, that are we to know especially. Now what do all the ⟨p. 28⟩Sacrifices, all the Types of the Old Testament hold forth, but Christ crucified? and what do all the Ordinances of the New? What doth Baptism? what doth Preaching? what doth the Lords Supper hold forth, but Christ crucified? Surely therefore this is our great work to know. But
2. Look what that is, that all the Ceremonies, Sacrifices, and Types of the Old Testament, and all the Ordinances of the New Testament do hold forth, that are we to know especially. Now what do all the ⟨p. 28⟩Sacrifices, all the Types of the Old Testament hold forth, but Christ crucified? and what do all the Ordinances of the New? What doth Baptisme? what doth Preaching? what doth the Lords Supper hold forth, but Christ crucified? Surely therefore this is our great work to know. But
3. If Christ crucified be the great and proper, and next object of our Faith, then certainly it must needs be our special work and duty for to know Christ, and him crucified. Now Christ crucified is the proper object of our Faith, and being opened and Preached, will both beget and increase our Faith. It is the object of our Faith, and therefore, saith the Apostle, R•m. 3.25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood: The Blood, and Death, and Sufferings of Christ, is the next and immediate object of our Faith. Four things there are that do bid for our Faith, which men do ordinarily think we are to trust unto: the power of God, the promise of God, the personal excellencies and fullness of Christ, and their own graces. But though we do rest upon the power and all sufficiency of God, yet if you look into Scripture, you shall find, that the immediate object of our Faith is Christ crucified: God is the ultimate, Christ the immediate object, Ye believe in God, believe also in me,