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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.
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.
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 Ezra 10.19. it is said, they gave their hands to put away their Wives; and in the former verse, they made a Covenant to do it, They rose, and made a Covenant to put away their Wives: And we find in the 1 of Chronicles, that when David ⟨p. 77⟩was dead, that all the people came together, Chap. 24.24. And all the Princes, and the Mighty Men, and all the Sons likewise of King David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the King; the word in the Hebrew is, they gave the hand under King Solomon; they gave their hand by way of Covenant, and they gave their hand under King Solomon, in a a way of submission. So when we enter into Covenant with the Lord, we give our hand under God; and therefore if you desire to get into Covenant do these things.
Quest. Well, but suppose I be in Covenant with God, as I hope I am, What should I do that I may walk as becometh one that is in Covenant with the great God?