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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. If Jesus be the Mediator of the New Covenant, then you may go with boldness, and look the Justice of God in the face; with boldness, for your debt is satisfied: So long as a man is in debt, he steals by the Prison door in the dark; but if his Surety have paid the debt, he dares come (as you say) and whet his knife at the Counter door. Now Christ being your Mediator, the Mediator of the New Covenant, he is your Surety, the debt is paid, and you may go with boldness and look Justice in the face, and the Devil, and all those Sergeants of Hell.
2. If Jesus be the Mediator of the New Covenant, then you may go with boldnesse, and look the Justice of God in the face; with boldnesse, for your debt is satisfied: So long as a man is in debt, he steals by the Prison door in the dark; but if his Surety have paid the debt, he dares come (as you say) and whet his knife at the Counter door. Now Christ being your Mediator, the Mediator of the New Covenant, he is your Surety, the debt is paid, and you may goe with boldnesse and looke Justice in the face, and the Devil, and all those Serjeants of Hell.
But thirdly, Is it not a great matter for Christ to be your King, Priest and Prophet? consider it a little: If you observe it, you shall find that all the blessings that came to the Jews or Israelites in the time of the Old Testament, came through these three offices, King, Priest, Prophet; why, but as a Type, to show that all our spiritual mercies must come through the hand of these three offices in Christ: Now if Christ be the Mediator of the New Covenant, then he is your King, your Priest, your Prophet; for all these three offices of Christ, grow upon the Mediation of Christ.
But thirdly, Is it not a great matter for Christ to be your King, Priest and Prophet? consider it a little: If you observe it, you shall find that all the blessings that came to the Jews or Israelites in the time of the Old Testament, came through these three offices, King, Priest, Prophet; why, but as a Type, to shew that all our spiritual mercies must come through the hand of these three offices in Christ: Now if Christ be the Mediator of the New Covenant, then he is your King, your Priest, your Prophet; for all these three offices of Christ, grow upon the Mediation of Christ.