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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. And to you it speaks thus. If the Lord Jesus Christ be the Mediator of this New Covenant, your Mediator, and mediates for you, then why should not you appear for Christ on Earth upon all occasions? Shall Christ interpose with the Father, and appear for you, and mediate for you in Heaven upon all occasions, and will not you appear for Christ on Earth? What, Christ appear for you in Heaven, and mediate for you in Heaven, and will not you appear for Christ on Earth? Yea, unto you it saith, Why should not you all go away with your hearts full of Love and Thankfulness, both to God the Father, and to Jesus Christ? If you were going to the Prison for a Debt, and a man should meet you, and undertake to be your Surety, and pay your Debt, you would love him as long as you lived: Here is the case, we were all going to Prison, Christ comes, undertakes to be our Surety, pays our Debt; then will you not love Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant? Will you not love him, and be thankful to him, and to God the Father? For though the performance of this Mediation be Christs, the Contrivance is God the Fathers. God the Father did contrive this Covenant, and God the Father did send Christ this Mediator; [I] have given thee for a Covenant, saith the Father; and saith Christ, Lo, I come to do Thy ⟨p. 111⟩Will. Friends, it was the will of God the Father, that Jesus should be the Mediator of this New Covenant. Oh the freeness of the Grace of God the Father! He was the person offended; and yet, that He himself should find out such a Mediator, of such a Covenant, what Grace is here! Now therefore blessed be God the Father for this Mediator, let us all say; and blessed be this Mediator JESUS, who hath mediated us into this New Covenant.
2. And to you it speaks thus. If the Lord Jesus Christ be the Mediator of this New Covenant, your Mediator, and mediates for you, then why should not you appeare for Christ on Earth upon all occasions? Shall Christ interpose with the Father, and appeare for you, and mediate for you in Heaven upon all occasions, and will not you appear for Christ on Earth? What, Christ appeare for you in Heaven, and mediate for you in Heaven, and will not you appeare for Christ on Earth? Yea, unto you it saith, Why should not you all goe away with your hearts full of Love and Thankfulnesse, both to God the Father, and to Jesus Christ? If you were going to the Prison for a Debt, and a man should meet you, and undertake to be your Surety, and pay your Debt, you would love him as long as you lived: Here is the case, we were all going to Prison, Christ comes, undertakes to be our Surety, payes our Debt; then will you not love Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant? Will you not love him, and be thankfull to him, and to God the Father? For though the performance of this Mediation be Christs, the Contrivance is God the Fathers. God the Father did contrive this Covenant, and God the Father did send Christ this Mediator; [I] have given thee for a Covenant, saith the Father; and saith Christ, Lo, I come to do Thy