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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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5. In the time of the Old Testament, they came unto Christ by the promise, for Christ was not yet come, but promised: But now in the times of the New Testament, we come first to Christ, and so unto the Promise; for all the Promises are Yea, and Amen in Christ.
6. In the time of the Old Testament, they came unto Christ by the Law, and, without the Law they might not come to Christ: For the Law was a School-master for to bring to Christ. But now in the time of the New Testament, The Law is not our School-master for to bring to Christ. And though seldom any go to Heaven, but come by the gates of Hell; And seldom men do come to Christ now, but they have some workings of the Law first: Yet notwithstanding, if I will lay a necessity upon such a precedency of a legal work, before I do come to Christ, then I am too legal.
6. In the time of the Old Testament, they came unto Christ by the Law, and, without the Law they might not come to Christ: For the Law was a School-master for to bring to Christ. But now in the time of the New Testament, The Law is not our School-master for to bring to Christ. And though seldome any go to Heaven, but come by the gates of Hell; And seldome men do come to Christ now, but they have some workings of the Law first: Yet notwithstanding, if I will lay a necessity upon such a precedency of a legal work, before I do come to Christ, then I am too legal.
7. In the times of the Old Testament, men did then upon any great discovery of God, fly from God; as when God gave out the Law, they fled from God: And when Christ did a great work before Peter, Lord (saith he) depart from me, for I am a sinful man: But now in the Gospel, the greater the discovery is, the more a Gospel Spirit doth draw near to God: Oh, 'tis good for me to be here! saith he.