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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
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.
First, If you ask what there is in Christ's going to the Father, that is matter of our Rejoicing, of a Disciples rejoicing.
First, If you ask what there is in Christ's going to the Father, that is matter of our Rejoycing, of a Disciples rejoycing.
I answer, much every way;—much in reference to our own concernments, —much in reference to the concernments of Christ, —much in reference to the concernments of God the Father.
As for our own concernments,
First, If Christ had not gone unto the Father, his satisfaction for our sins had not been accepted, nor •ur Redemption perfected, Heb. 9.12. Neither by the blood of Goats and Calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal Redemption for us. It doth relate and allude unto the manner of the Old Testament: when the blood of Goats •nd Calves was poured out, the Priest took the blood •nd carried it into the holy of holyest, and sprinkled the mer Seat: But though the blood of Bulls or Calves had een poured out, yet if the Priest had not carried it to the holy of holyest, the typical satisfaction and redemption had not been obtained: And so here, though e blood of Jesus had been shed, and poured out upon the Cross, if he had not gone unto the Father, and rried his blood into heaven, into the holy of holyest, his tisfaction for our sin had not been accepted, and ou redemption had not been perfected.