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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.
1. If Jesus be the Mediator of the New Covenant, what an evil thing is it, and unreasonable, for men to think, or speak, or do any thing that may reflect upon this Mediator of the New Covenant, or to sin against this New Covenant? There are some Opinions that do reflect and cast a black reflection upon Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant.
The Socinian tells us, that Jesus is a Mediator, such a one as Moses was, to declare the mind of God unto us; but not a Mediator in way of satisfaction, to satisfy Gods wrath.
The Socinian tells us, that Jesus is a Mediator, such a one as Moses was, to declare the mind of God unto us; but not a Mediator in way of satisfaction, to satisfie Gods wrath.
They say he is a Mediator, but not a Surety, to merit for us, or to pay our debt for us.
They say he is a Mediator, but deny the Deity of Christ, and so root up the very mediation of Christ; they cast a very black reflection upon this Mediator.