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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.
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And if you look into the 7th. of the Rom. you shall find that now in these Gospel times, we are to be dead unto the Law; which the Apostle clears by a very great similitude: Saith he, Know ye not Brethren, how that the Law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth: For the woman which hath an husband, is bound by the Law to her Husband, so long as he liveth; but if the Husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her Husband: So then, if while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an Adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that Law; so that she is no Adulteress, though she be married to another man: Wherefore, my Brethren, ye also are become dead to the Law, by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
And if you look into the 7th. of the Rom. you shall find that now in these Gospel times, we are to be dead unto the Law; which the Apostle clears by a very great similitude: Saith he, Know ye not Brethren, how that the Law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth: For the woman which hath an husband, is bound by the Law to her Husband, so long as he liveth; but if the Husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her Husband: So then, if while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an Adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that Law; so that she is no Adulteress, though she be married to another man: Wherefore, my Brethren, ye also are become dead to the Luw, by the body of Christ, that ye should be marryed to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Ye are married to another, therefore ye are dead to the Law— dead, how dead?— why, ye are freed from the Law; he expresses it so elsewhere, freed from the Law— How so? What are we freed from the Commandment of the Law? From the precept of the Law?— No, saith the Apostle: The Commandment is h•ly, and just, and good— How then are we freed from the Law?