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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.
But on the other side, if you be in Covenant with the Lord, then are you exalted and honoured, yea, greatly honoured. For if it be an honour to be in League and Covenant with a great Prince, What an honour is it to be in Covenant with the great God? When God did speak to Abraham of striking a Covenant with him, he falls down upon his face; as if he should say, Who am I, that the great God should be in Covenant with me?
Again, If God be in Covenant with you, look whatever excellency there is in God, that is made over to you for your use. And as that King said to him that was in League with him, My Horse is thine, and my Men are thine, and my Money is thine; so when God enters into Covenant with a poor Soul, — he saith, My Wisdom is thine, and my Power is thine, and my Love and Mercy is thine: Whatever excellency there is in God, is made over to you, being in Covenant with him.
Again, If God be in Covenant with you, look whatever excellency there is in God, that is made over to you for your use. And as that King said to him that was in League with him, My Horse is thine, and my Men are thine, and my Money is thine; so when God enters into Covenant with a poor Soul, — he saith, My Wisdome is thine, and my Power is thine, and my Love and Mercy is thine: Whatever excellency there is in God, is made over to you, being in Covenant with him.
And if that you be in Covenant with the Lord, then all his Retinue, his Creatures, and his Servants, also are in Covenant with you, in the 2d. of Hos. 21. It shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the Heavens, and they shall hear the Earth, and the Earth shall hear the Corn, and the Wine, and the Oil, and they shall hear Jezreel. — Why? — vers. 19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in Righteousness, and in Judgement, and in loving Kindness, ⟨p. 75⟩