A77360:428
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, by not looking into it, not studying it, not being acquainted with it. Shall the Lord Jesus be such a Mediator of such a Covenant, and shall we not look into the Covenant, and be acquainted with it? Yet Lord, how many poor souls are there that are ignorant of this Covenant? What unthankfulness is this, what a sin against the Covenant is this, that Jesus should be the Mediator of the Covenant, and men should not look into it, not study it, not be acquainted with it?
First, by not looking into it, not studying it, not being acquainted with it. Shall the Lord Jesus be such a Mediator of such a Covenant, and shall we not look into the Covenant, and be acquainted with it? Yet Lord, how many poor souls are there that are ignorant of this Covenant? What unthankfulnesse is this, what a sin against the Covenant is this, that Jesus should be the Mediator of the Covenant, and men should not look into it, not study it, not be acquainted with it?
2. Sometimes we sin against the Covenant, by altering the mould and the frame of the Covenant, by hanging our conditions upon Gods Covenant, our pad-lock upon Gods door.
2. Sometimes we sin against the Covenant, by altering the mold and the frame of the Covenant, by hanging our conditions upon Gods Covenant, our pad-lock upon Gods door.
3. Sometimes we sin against the Covenant, by slighting that Great Ordinance of the Lords Supper, concerning which Christ hath said, ⟨p. 105⟩This Cup is the New Testament in my blood: To slight it, saying, these are low things, we are above Ordinances, and these are carnal things, now thus to slight it, is to sin directly against the Covenant.