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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.
1. And first of all, if you ask me what this Covenant is, take this description of the Covenant that now we are in.
1. And first of all, if you aske me what this Covenant is, take this description of the Covenant that now we are in.
It is that mutual agreement between God and Man, whereby God the Father doth engage himself to show mercy, love and kindness, to Christ an• to his Seed; Christ engaging both for himself an• for his Seed, to be obedient unto God the Father.
It is that mutual agreement between God and Man, whereby God the Father doth ingage himself to shew mercy, love and kindness, to Christ an• to his Seed; Christ ingaging both for himself an• for his Seed, to be obedient unto God the Father.
First, I say, it is a mutual agreement, and herein a Covenant differs from a Law. A Law properly is a commandment with penalty. No sooner wa• man made, but he was under a Law, to be obedient unto God his Maker; and in case he broke it, God by the Law of Nature might punish him But then when God said unto him, In the day tha• thou eatest thereof, thou shalt dye the death, then God entered into Covenant, man accepting thereof. Th• Child is obliged by the Law of Nature to obey hi• Parents; yet this is no Covenant, but a law of Nature, for here is no agreement. But the Wife is obliged to obey her Husband, and this is a Covenant why? — because it is by mutual agreement; So that I say, this Covenant, First, is a mutual agreement between God and Man: But