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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.
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 wi•h a Gospel, not a Legal Spirit; and be found in a Gospel, not a Legal Way, in these Gospel-times.
First of all, If you ask, What is here meant by coming unto Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant, in opposition to Moses?
I answer in the general, It doth signify and note out, that Evangelical and Gospel-state that we are now brought unto, by Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament; in opposition to the Legal state tha• they were in, in the days and times of the Old Testament: — But because this is general and common unto that which goes before, therefore you must kno• more particularly;