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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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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.
7. In the times of the Old Testament, men did then upon any great discovery of God, flie 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.
8. The time of the Old Testament, was a time of the Letter: And therefore if a man of a legal spirit, can but perform his duty according to the Letter of ⟨p. 367⟩the Commandment, he is satisfied. But the times of the New Testament, are the times of the Spirit: We are not Ministers of the Letter, but of the Spirit: And therefore a Gospel spirit, though he can perform his duty according to the Letter of the Command; yet if he don't attain the spirit in it, he is unsatisfied.
9. To say no more in it but this: In the times of the Old Testament God spake by Visions, and Dreams, and Signs: But now in these latter days, he hath spoken by his Son; and we have a more sure word of Prophecy, whereunto we do well that we take heed. So that thus you see that there is a difference, and what the difference is between the way of the Old, and New Testament, between an Old Testament, and a New Testament spirit.