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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.
As the first Adam should have confirmed the Covenant and did not, so the second Adam did confirm the Covenant. — How should the first Adam have confirmed the Covenant? — Why, the first Adam should have confirmed the Covenant by performing the condition thereof. So now our Lord and Saviour Christ, being the second Adam, did confirm the Covenant, — How? — by performing the condition of the Covenant: Thus he is the Mediator of the New Covenant, upon the account of Confirmation.
As the first Adam should have confirmed the Covenant and did not, so the second Adam did confirme the Covenant. — How should the first Adam have confirmed the Covenant? — Why, the first Adam should have confirmed the Covenant by performing the condition thereof. So now our Lord and Saviour Christ, being the second Adam, did confirme the Covenant, — How? — by performing the condition of the Covenant: Thus he is the Mediator of the New Covenant, upon the account of Confirmation.
3. He is the Mediator of the New Covenant upon the account of Suretyship, by being bound ⟨p. 97⟩unto God the Father that we shall perform to him, by being bound to us that God the Father shall perform to us. In the 7th of the Hebrews, you shall find he is called our Surety, vers. 22. By so much was Jesus made a Surety of a better Testament: — And why so? but to show, that where he is Mediator, he is Surety. You know what a Surety is, he is bound for the Debtor to perform. Saith Judah unto his Father Jacob, Gen. 43.9. when he would have Benjamin down with him to Egypt, I'll be surety for him, of my hand shalt thou require him; So Christ saith unto the Father, I will be Surety for these men, and of my hand shalt thou require their performance;— and saith he to them again, I will be Surety for God the Father, and of my hand shall you require his mercies. So that thus now he is a Mediator of the New Covenant, upon an account of Suretyship, upon a threefold account; — upon the account of Stipulation, — upon the account of Confirmation, — upon the account of Suretyship.