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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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Why then be sure of this, that upon a right and good understanding of the nature of this Covenant, you go to God, and make your choice of this Covenant of Grace, to stand and fall by. The word Berith in ⟨p. 76⟩the Hebrew, for Covenant, some think comes from a root that signifies to choose; a man is in the Covenant that he chooses, and every man is indeed as his choice is.
Why then be sure of this, that upon a right and good understanding of the nature of this Covenant, you go to God, and make your choise of this Covenant of Grace, to stand and fall by. The word Berith in ⟨p. 76⟩the Hebrew, for Covenant, some think comes from a root that signifies to choose; a man is in the Covenant that he chooses, and every man is indeed as his choise is.
But then go and renounce the other Covenant of Works, &c. As the way to have a part in Christs Righteousness is to renounce all your own Righteousness; so the way to have a share in this Covenant of Grace, is to renounce the Covenant o• Works.
Then go to Christ as the Mediator of the Covenant, and desire him to put you into this Covenant; He struck the Covenant with God the Father at the first, and he must put you into this Covenant, for he is the Mediator of the Covenant; go then to him, as to the Mediator of the Covenant, to put you into Covenant.