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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.
First of all, you have the assurance of the first great promise that was made, The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head, Gen. 3. Saith the Lord to the Serpent, I will put enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed. If there be enmity between Satan and us, there will be peace between God and us; where God saith he will put enmity between the Devil and us, he doth there promise, that there shall be peace and reconciliation between God and us; — now this here he saith, — And how shall this be done? — It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. It shall be done by him whose heel in his sufferings is bruised by Satan and his Instruments; It shall be done by Christ.
First of all, you have the assurance of the first great promise that was made, The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head, Gen. 3. Saith the Lord to the Serpent, I will put enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed. If there be enmity between Satan and us, there will be peace between God and us; where God saith he will put enmity between the Devil and us, he doth there promise, that there shall be peace and reconciliation between God and us; — now this here he saith, — And how shall this be done? — It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heele. It shall be done by him whose heel in his sufferings is bruised by Satan and his Instruments; It shall be done by Christ.
2. As you have the assurance of the first promise, so you have the assurance of what Christ hath done already; he will not loose what he hath done, he will not loose his work. If Jesus Christ did not boggle nor startle at, nor fly back from the hardest piece of Mediation, which was to satisfy for our sins, surely he will not give in, and start back from the easier part, which is, to intercede in Heaven, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for us.
2. As you have the assurance of the first promise, so you have the assurance of what Christ hath done already; he will not loose what he hath done, he will not loose his work. If Jesus Christ did not boggle nor startle at, nor fly back from the hardest piece of Mediation, which was to satisfie for our sins, surely he will not give in, and start back from the easier part, which is, to intercede in Heaven, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for us.