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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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14. There you may see the foundation of you• Union and Communion with God the Father.
15. There you may see again, the accomplishment of that great contrivance between God th• Father and Christ, in reference to our Salvation.
What shall I say, there in Christ crucified yo• may see a full answer to all your wants, to all you fears, to all your doubts. — What do you wan• but you may see it in Christ crucified? Do yo• complain of your own unworthiness? Oh! I a• a poor unworthy Creature; Do but look on Chr•• crucified, you see him suffering without the Gat• Why, saith Austin, did he suffer without t•• Gates? not only to fulfil the Scripture, He w• numbered among transgressors: But he suffered wit• out the Gates, not in the Holy City, because […] suffered for the Gentiles as well as the Jews; […] suffered for the ungodly, for the unworthy. No• look upon Christ crucified, and there you see h• suffering without the Gates for the most unworthy▪