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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 3: The New Covenant of Grace opened. SERMON III.
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.
Heb. 12. 24. And to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covena•• and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh bett•• things then that of Abel.
IN this Scripture you have the difference b• tween the Law and the Gospel: The exce• lency of the state of the Church under t•• New Testament, above the state of the Chu•• under the Old Testament; for saith the Apostle […] the 18. vers. Ye are not come unto the Mount th• might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor un• blackness and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of trumpet, and the voice of words: But ye are come u• to Mount Zion, vers. 22. and unto the City of the li• ing God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innum• rabble company of Angels, &c.
IN this Scripture you have the difference b• tween the Law and the Gospel: The exce• lency of the state of the Church under t•• New Testament, above the state of the Chu•• under the Old Testament; for saith the Apostle 〈…〉 the 18. vers. Ye are not come unto the Mount th• might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor un• blackness and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of trumpet, and the voice of words: But ye are come u to Mount Sion, vers. 22. and unto the City of the li ing God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innum rable company of Angels, &c.