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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.
2. As it is a gracious Covenant, so it is a fr• and inconditionate Covenant: — Free in oppositi•• ⟨p. 69⟩to all conditions to be performed by us; Pray do not mistake me, I do not say there is no condition in the New Covenant; but the Condition is performed by Christ our second Adam.
Nor do I say, that Faith, Obedience and Repentance are not required, but I say, Faith, Obedience and Repentance are required in the New Covenant as Duties, but not as Conditions.
This I say then, it is a free Covenant, in opposition to all conditions to be performed by us; for when the Covenant of Grace is mentioned in Scripture, where do you find any condition annexed to any thing that is there promised? — saith the Lord, I will remember your sins no more: — Upon what condition? — none mentioned; — I will write my Law in your hearts; — Upon what condition? — none mentioned; — You shall all know me from the greatest to the least, &c. — Upon what condition? none mentioned. Where do you ever find the Covenant mentioned with a condition?