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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 ye are free from the Covenant of the Law, as a Covenant. And thus are ye in these Gospel times, dead to the Law, and free: But now though we are thus dead, and be thus free, yet possibly a man may be too Legal in these Gospel times, That's the Second.
3. But then thirdly, When may a man be said to be Legal, or Mosaical, in opposition to this Mediator, Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant? And when may a man be said to be Evangelical in opposition to Moses, the Mediator of the Old Covenant? Or, in short, What is the Way and Spirit of the Old, and of the New Testament, and wherein do they differ?
First of all, An Old Testament legal Spirit, is a servile spirit, that serveth God upon the account of wages, or reward; mostly, chiefly, or only. An Evangelical Gospel spirit, is a Filial spirit. Moses therefore the Head of that Covenant, is called a Servant; and Jesus the Head of this Covenant, is called a Son: Moses as a Servant, Christ as a Son, Heb. 3. And if you look into Rom. 8. you shall find its said there by way of difference: For ye have not received the Spirit of Bondage again unto fear: So you read it, but the words are [Greek or Hebrew], ye have not received the spirit of Servitude again, or a servile Spirit, or the spirit of Servants: But ye have received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father.— Compare this with Gal. 4. and you shall see the ⟨p. 362⟩opposition doth not lie between the Spirit of Adoption, and Bondage, but Servitude, v. 6. Because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Aba Fther; wherefore thou art no more a Servant, but a Son. In the 1. verse, Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a Child, differeth nothing from a Servant, though he be Lord of all; but is under Tutors and Governors, until the time appointed of the Father. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a Women, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons: And because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hears, crying, Abba Father; wherefore thou art n mre a Serv nt. So that it is a servile spirit, and the spirit of a servant, that is here opposed to this Adoption: And would you know the difference between the spirit of a Servant, and the spirit of a Son?