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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 5: The Way and Spirit of the New Covenant, or New Testament. SERM. V.
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, We must inquire, What is here meant by •oming unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, ⟨p. 354⟩in opposition to Moses, the Mediator of the Old Covenant.
Secondly, Whether it be possible for a man tha• doth profess Christ, the Mediator of the New Covenant, to have recourse unto Moses, the Mediator of the Old Covenant, or the Old Testament? That is, Whether a Man may possibly be Legal and Mosaical, in these Gospel-times?
Thirdly, When so.
Fourthly, The Danger of it; and,
Fifthly, What we should do that we may stand clea• from Moses, the Mediator of the Old Covenant; an come fully off unto Jesus, the Mediator of the New. That we may walk wih a Gospel, not a Legal Spirit; and be found in a Gospel, not a Legal Way, in these Gospel-times.