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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.
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.
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.
2. He was and is the fittest person to mediate between God and us, for he is a middle person, partaking of Gods nature, and of mans. Extremes are joined together by a middle: who more fit to mediate between two, then he that is a middle between them?
2. He was and is the fittest person to mediate between God and us, for he is a middle person, partaking of Gods nature, and of mans. Extreams are joyn'd together by a middle: who more fit to mediate between two, then he that is a middle between them?
3. He is the fittest person, for he is the fittest to make reconciliation between God and us, to reconcile God to us, and us unto God.