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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.
Without all doubt it is: and I wish (if it were the will of the Lord) that too many were not found upon Legal ground among Professors. What think you of the Galatians? Did not they live in Gospel Times? Did not they profess to come unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant? Yet, see how the Apostle treats them, and reproves them again and again, for their being too Legal, too Mosaical: Ye are fallen from Grace, saith he: My little children of whom I trav•• in birth again, till Christ be formed in you. Ye are so much for Moses, and the Law, that I travel in birth again, till Christ be formed in you.
Without all doubt it is: and I wish (if it were the will of the Lord) that too many were not found upon Legal ground among Pr•f•ssors. What think you of the Galatians? Did not they live in Gospel Times? Did not they profess to come unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant? Yet, see how the Apostle treats them, and reproves them again and again, for their being too Legal, too Mosaical: Ye are fallen from Grace, saith he: My little children of whom I trav•• in birth again, till Christ be formed in you. Ye are so much for Moses, and the Law, that I travel in birth again, till Christ be formed in you.
As there was a mixture of the Gospel in the time of the Law; so there may be too great a mixture of the Law in the times of the Gospel.
And I pray what think you, Are there not very many that live under the Gospel, in whom sin reigns? Yes, many live under the Gospel in whom sin reigns: ⟨p. 359⟩