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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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First, He is the fittest to reconcile God to us; for that God might be reconciled, he must be satisfied, his Justice satisfied, and his Anger satisfied: Now Jesus Christ was God and Man; as Man, he ought to satisfy, but could not; as God, he could satisfy, but he ought not: but as God-man, he both could and ought, and so the fittest. And again,
First, He is the fittest to reconcile God to us; for that God might be reconciled, he must be satisfied, his Justice satisfied, and his Anger satisfied: Now Jesus Christ was God and Man; as Man, he ought to satisfie, but could not; as God, he could satisfie, but he ought not: but as God-man, he both could and ought, and so the fittest. And again,
2. Who more fit to reconcile God unto us, then he that was the most fit to intercede, that had credit and favour, and love with the Father? Now Jesus lay in the bosom of his Father; This is my beloved Son: and I was the Fathers delight, saith he in the 8th of Prov. Therefore the most fit to intercede, and so to reconcile God unto us.
2. Who more fit to reconcile God unto us, then he that was the most fit to intercede, that had credit and favour, and love with the Father? Now Jesus lay in the bosome of his Father; This is my beloved Son: and I was the Fathers delight, saith he in the 8th of Prov. Therefore the most fit to intercede, and so to reconcile God unto us.
3. Who more fit to reconcile God to us, then he that was fit to be a surety, to undertake for us. If a man come to mediate with a person offended, for another: Saith the person offended, but will you undertake he shall do so no more? — Yes, — Why then I am willing. Now Jesus is called our surety, in the 8th. Heb. He undertakes that though we have broken with God already, we shall break no more; and therefore the fittest person to reconcile God to us.