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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.
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?
Answ. First of all, If you be in Covenant indeed with the Lord, then God hath honoured you, he hath exalted you, and honoured you greatly; and if God have honoured you, why should not you honour God?
Now first, the more you fall down at the feet of the fullness of Christ, in the sense of your own unworthiness, inability, and insufficiency, the more you honour God: There is one, saith John, who is mightier then I, whose shoo latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
Now first, the more you fall down at the feet of the fulness of Christ, in the sense of your own unworthiness, inability, and insufficiency, the more you honour God: There is one, saith John, who is mightier then I, whose shooe latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
2. The more you cry up those Ordinances and ways of God, that are decried by the World, the more you honour God.