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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.
You have better Promises, and shall not your lives be better?
Your state now is called Grace to That: The Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth comes by Christ, John 1. Chap. Look therefore upon the Jews, look into the Old Testament, and look upon the best of them, and think with your selves, am I in a better Covenant? Oh then how am I engaged ⟨p. 80⟩to live better? Oh that our lives were more exalted upon this account. Why should not our lives be better, and we live at a higher Rate?
Your state now is called Grace to That: The Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth comes by Christ, John 1. Chap. Look therefore upon the Jews, look into the Old Testament, and look upon the best of them, and think with your selves, am I in a better Covenant? Oh then how am I ingaged ⟨p. 80⟩to live better? Oh that our lives were more exalted upon this account. Why should not our lives be better, and we live at a higher Rate?
4. If you be in Covenant with the Lord, and the Lord in Covenant with you, then be sure of this, That you be true to God; be true to God in the matter of his Worship: the Covenant stricken between God and you, is a Conjugal Covenant. A Woman, though she will admit another man into the house with her Husband, yet she will not admit him into the bed, that is a breach of Covenant. Now the Worship of God is the bed wherein Christ doth bed with a Soul; and therefore if you look into the Old Testament, you shall find that Idolatry is accounted Adultery, and Harlotry: — Why? Because they took Idols, and men into the bed with God. Would you walk then as those that are in Covenant with the Lord, away with every thing of mans out of Christs bed, Remember it is a conjugal Covenant? Whatsoever is of mans coming into the Worship of the Lord, which is the Lords bed, is against your Covenant. When God speaks of a Covenant, he saith, Thou shalt be for me, and I will be for thee,