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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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5. Is it not a great matter to have the Lor• Jesus to interpose between God the Father an• ⟨p. 101⟩you, to take up all differences as they may arise? why, if Jesus be the Mediator of the Covenant, so it is, If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous, who is the propitiation for our sins.
6. Is it not a great matter for you to enter into the Holy of Holyest, and to have all your duties carried in to God the Father by the hand of Jesus? If he be your Mediator, so it is, Rev. 8.
7. Is it not a great matter, in case that you have to deal with enemies, either for Soul or Body, to have one by, that can and will interpose and rebuke them? Why, if Jesus be the Mediator of the Covenant, thus shall it be. He interposed between Laban and Jacob; when Laban followed Jacob, he rebuked Laban. He interposed in the case of Joshua, when Satan stood at his right hand: the Lord rebuke thee, as in the 3d Chapter of Zechary. The same word in the Hebrew, that Job useth for Days-man, comes from a root that signifies to rebuke.
7. Is it not a great matter, in case that you have to deal with enemies, either for Soul or Body, to have one by, that can and will interpose and rebuke them? Why, if Jesus be the Mediator of the Covenant, thus shall it be. He interposed between Laban and Jacob; when Laban followed Jacob, he rebuked Laban. He interposed in the case of Joshua, when Satan stood at his right hand: the Lord rebuke thee, as in the 3d Chapter of Zechary. The same word in the Hebrew, that Job useth for Dayes-man, comes from a root that signifies to rebuke.