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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.
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4. That thus coming unto Jesus the Mediate of the New Covenant, we are also come unto t•• blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better thing then that of Abel.
4. That thus coming unto Jesus the Mediat• of the New Covenant, we are also come unto t•• blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better thing then that of Abel.
Doct. I shall begin with the first; There is new Covenant stricken with the children of me•
It was always Gods way to deal with man i• the way of a Covenant; that is the most suitabl• to man, the most honourable for man, and the mo• amicable and friendly: from the beginning therefore so it was; no sooner was man made, but Go• entered into Covenant with him, In the day th•• ⟨p. 57⟩thou eatest thereof, thou shalt dye the death; — And then a Covenant he made with the World by Noah; — And then a Covenant he made with Abraham; — And then a Covenant he made with the Jews at Mount Sinai. It hath always been Gods way to deal with man in the way of a Covenant, but now in these latter days he hath stricken a New Covenant with the children of men: A New Covenant will I make with the house of Israel saith the Lord, by way of promise,