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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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If I should answer with Divines ordinarily (wherein they speak the truth) I must say, that the Covenant which God made with the Jews, was for substance the same, though different in administration; but give me leave to express my own sense in my own terms, thus,
1. It is plain and clear, that the Jews that were saved in the time of the Old Testament, were saved by the same Covenant, that we now are saved by; for they were saved by the Covenant that God made with Abraham, so are we, Luke 11. Rom. 4. Gal. 3. Circumcision then was the Seal of the Covenant; and what was Circumcision, but a seal of the Righteousness of Faith? The Ceremonies, Types and Sacrifices, did not belong to the Covenant of works, they were Types of Christ, and therefore it ⟨p. 64⟩must needs be the same Covenant, for it was a Covenant of works that was made with the Jews, God should have brought them from better to worse for the Covenant of Grace was made with Abraham; but though the Law was added after the Promise, it could not disannul the Promise, saith the Apostle in the 3. of Gal. So that its plain and clea• the Jews that were then saved, were saved by th• same Covenant that we now are: But
1. It is plain and clear, that the Jews that were saved in the time of the Old Testament, were saved by the same Covenant, that we now are saved by; for they were saved by the Covenant that God made with Abraham, so are we, Luke 11. Rom. 4.