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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.
4. But again, The Apostle Paul tells us, That th• Inheritance is not to the Bond-woman: there wer• two Women in A•rahams house, Hagar the Bond-woman, and Sarah the Free-woman; and these wer• Types of the Law and the Gospel, saith the Apostle▪ The Inheritance is not to the Bondwoman, cast he out; but the Inheritance is to the Free-woman, an• to her Children: So then, the Inheritance is not […] ⟨p. 371⟩the Legalist; no, the Inheritance is to the Free-woman.
4. But again, The Apostle Paul tells us, That th• Inheritance is not to the Bond-woman: there wer• two Women in A•rahams house, Hagar the Bond-woman, and Sarah the Free-woman; and these wer• Types of the Law and the Gospel, saith the Apostle▪ The Inheritance is not to the Bondwoman, cast he out; but the Inheritance is to the Free-woman, an• to her Children: So then, the Inheritance is not 〈…〉 ⟨p. 371⟩the Legalist; no, the Inheritance is to the Free-woman.
5. Yea Friends, what is this, but a plain Apostasy, or that which tends to Apostasy; now after we profess we are come to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant; to have recourse to Moses, the Mediator of the Old Covenant? All flesh is grass, and withereth; but the Word of the Lord endures for ever — and with that— The Gospel that I preached unto you, that will hold (saith he.) Whose house ye are, saith the Apostle, if ye hold fast the confidence of your rejoicing steadfast unto the end.— Whee lies our confidence but in Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant? yea, saith the Apostle to the Legal Galatians, Ye are fallen from grace; because they wee returned to Moses, and had recourse to Moses. O what a dangerous thing then is it for a man to be Legal in these Gospel-times?