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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 4: Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant. SERMON IV.
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2. Jesus was, and is the fittest person in the World to mediate between God and us. There was no creature fit to Umpire the business between God and us; and therefore Job saith well, at the 9th. Chap. 33. verse, Neither is there any days-man betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both — Man was not fit to mediate, because man is the person offending; — Angels not fit to mediate, for the shoulder of an Angel could not bear the weight of Mediation-Work, neither could an Angel satisfy. — God the Father, not fit for this work, the first person in the Trinity, for he was the person offended. — The Holy Ghost not fit for this work, for 'tis his work to apply the blood of this mediation; so then, there is none other fit, but Christ fit, Jesus fit, The fittest person.
2. Jesus was, and is the fittest person in the World to mediate between God and us. There was no creature fit to Umpire the business between God and us; and therefore Job saith well, at the 9th. Chap. 33. verse, Neither is there any dayes-man betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both — Man was not fit to mediate, because man is the person offending; — Angels not fit to mediate, for the shoulder of an Angel could not bear the weight of Mediation-Work, neither could an Angel satisfie. — God the Father, not fit for this work, the first person in the Trinity, for he was the person offended. — The Holy Ghost not fit for this work, for 'tis his work to apply the blood of this mediation; so then, there is none other fit, but Christ fit, Jesus fit, The fittest person.
For first of all, he is the person appointed by the Father. If a man will undertake to mediate between two, and be not chosen thereunto, he is not fit for it, but if chosen, then he is fit. Why Jesus is the person chosen, mine elect Servant, saith the Father, Whom I have chosen, I have given him for a Covenant unto the People, Isa. 42.