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Christ and the covenant the work and way of meditation

Name: Christ and the covenant the work and way of meditation
Author: William Bridge

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.

William Bridge 1600?–1670London: printed for N. Ranew, 1667

[4], 112, 353-501 p. · 83k words · Wing B4449A · ESTC R225773

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Sermons › Sermon 3: The New Covenant of Grace opened. SERMON III.

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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.

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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.

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Then leave the weight and stress of your Guilty Soul upon this Covenant of Grace, bear upon this stream of Grace, here lay the weight of all, for th• Promise is made ours by resting on it; And what is this Covenant, but an absolute Promise? there then rest, and leave the weight of your Souls.

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And to say no more but this; Then go unto the Lord, and give your hand unto God, and your self up to God, as one willing to be led by him into all the things that the Covenant shall require. In the times of the Old Testament, when they made a Covenant, they struck hands together; In

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The book

Title as printed

Author

William Bridge 1600?–1670

Place

London

Bookseller

N. Ranew

Year

1667

Size

[4], 112, 353-501 p.

Words

82,772

Catalogue

Wing B4449A · ESTC R225773

Text

EEBO-TCP A77360

Passages

1,067

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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