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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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5. You will say in the next place, Suppose yet that we do know Christ crucified as we ought to know, what shall we gain, or what shall we get thereby? what are the great benefits that we shall obtain or get by knowing Christ crucified in a right manner? Those are many.
5. You will say in the next place, Suppose yet that we do know Christ crucified as we ought to know, what shall we gain, or what shall we get thereby? what are the great benefits that we shall obtaine or get by knowing Christ crucified in a right manner? Those are many.
1. Thereby you shall know God, — you shall know your selves,— and you shall know men.
You shall know God, God is best known in Christ: The Sun is not seen but by the light of the ⟨p. 39⟩Sun. Christ (as one speaks) came from Heaven with a Bible under his arm, to make known the will of God the Father to the Children of Men; and without Christ, there is no knowledge of God the Father, he doth reveal the Father, thereby you know the Father.