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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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But now, although Moses was a Mediator, a Typical Mediator, and did stand between God and the people, as in the 5th. of Deut. to deliver out the Law unto them, vers. 5. I stood between the ⟨p. 90⟩Lord and you at that time, to show you the word of the Lord. Though (I say) Moses is called a Mediator, because he stood between God and the people, to give and deliver out the Law to them, yet you never find that Moses is called a Mediator in a way of Redemption, or satisfaction, or paying of any ransom; so Jesus only is: In the 1 Tim. 2. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. And so in the 9th Heb. For this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament: — For what cause? — Why? vers. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered up himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God; and for this cause is he the Mediator. It is never said so of Moses; — No, but Christ the Mediator, and he only the Mediator in a way of satisfaction, and redemption, and paying of a price. Well, thus he hath undertaken the work.
But now, although Moses was a Mediator, a Typical Mediator, and did stand between God and the people, as in the 5th. of Deut. to deliver out the Law unto them, vers. 5. I stood between the ⟨p. 90⟩Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord. Though (I say) Moses is called a Mediator, because he stood between God and the people, to give and deliver out the Law to them, yet you never find that Moses is called a Mediator in a way of Redemption, or satisfaction, or paying of any ransome; so Jesus onely is: In the 1 Tim. 2. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransome for all. And so in the 9th Heb. For this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament: — For what cause? — Why? vers. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered up himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God; and for this cause is he the Mediator. It is never said so of Moses; — No, but Christ the Mediator, and he onely the Mediator in a way of satisfaction, and redemption, and paying of a price. Well, thus he hath undertaken the work.