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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
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. No sooner did he come into heaven unto his Father, but he was Justified in all that which he did and suffered for us, as you have it in the 1 Tim. 3.16. God was manifest in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, seen of Angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
3. No sooner did he come unto the Father, but he ⟨p. 7⟩was anointed with a new and fresh Anointing, with the oil of gladness above all his fellows: For as David (the Type) had a double Anointing, one by the hand of Samuel, after which he was thrust out into the Wilderness, and another at the day of his Coronation, so Christ Typified had a double Anointing, one upon his Incarnation, in which respects he saith, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he hath anointed me to preach, —and another upon his Coronation, when he was crowned with Glory and honour. And therefore in Heb. 1. he is anointed twith the oil of gladness above his fellows, comes in upon his exaltation. And