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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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Again, 2. Though God did enter into Covenant with Adam, and so with us, and promised eternal life in Heaven; not eternal life in this World only, as some would: For Hell was threatened in these words, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death, and therefore Heaven and Salvation was promised on the contrary; yet I say (although God, when he entered into Covenant with us then, ⟨p. 62⟩did promise Heaven and Salvation) it was upon condition of our personal and perfect obedience, and therefore called a Covenant of works; But now our Covenant runs upon no such terms.
Again, 2. Though God did enter into Covenant with Adam, and so with us, and promised eternal life in Heaven; not eternal life in this World onely, as some would: For Hell was threatned in these words, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death, and therefore Heaven and Salvation was promised on the contrary; yet I say (although God, when he entered into Covenant with us then, ⟨p. 62⟩did promise Heaven and Salvation) it was upon condition of our personal and perfect obedience, and therefore called a Covenant of works; But now our Covenant runs upon no such terms.
3. Then in that Covenant, acceptation began in the Work, and so to the Person, and therefore saith the Lord to Cain, If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? speaking to him as belonging to the Covenant of works: — But in the Covenant now made, the acceptation begins in the Person, and so to the Work, and therefore saith the Lord concerning Abel, the Lord accepted Abel (his Person) and then his Sacrifice.