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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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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.
But secondly, the fittest person also to reconcile us to God.
1. Who more fit to reconcile us to God, then he that can change our natures? Now Jesus is able to change our nature: I find, saith Paul, a Law in my Members, rebelling against the Law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity unto the Law of sin which is in my members: O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? then, I thank God through Jesus Christ. And Rom. 8.2. The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death. And