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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. Who more fit to reconcile us to God, then he that can beget good thoughts in us concerning God? So long as a man hath hard thoughts of God, he will never be reconciled to God. Now Jesus Christ lay in the bosom of his Father, and can tell the Soul what volumes of Love there were and are in the bosom of the Father, for it, from all eternity, and so can beget love in the Soul towards God, and so able to reconcile the Soul to God. You have it clearly in John 1.18. he lay in the bosom of the Father, &c.
2. Who more fit to reconcile us to God, then he that can beget good thoughts in us concerning God? So long as a man hath hard thoughts of God, he will never be reconciled to God. Now Jesus Christ lay in the bosome of his Father, and can tell the Soul what volumes of Love there were and are in the bosome of the Father, for it, from all eternity, and so can beget love in the Soul towards God, and so able to reconcile the Soul to God. You have it clearly in John 1.18. he lay in the bosome of the Father, &c.
3. And then to say no more but this, Who more fit to reconcile us to God, then he that can give the Holy Ghost into our Souls? For as God is reconciled to us by the blood of Christ, so we are reconciled to God by the Spirit of Christ: Now Jesus gives the Spirit, I will send the Comforter, saith Christ; so that he, he is the fittest person in all the world to reconcile God to us, and to reconcile us to God, and so the fittest person in all the world to mediate between God and us. And so you have the second thing.
3. But then thirdly, As Jesus is the fittest person to mediate between God and us, so he hath undertaken this work of Mediation, and he will certainly carry it on unto due perfection.