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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.
Yet let me tell you this, Though a good and gracious Soul may be overgrown with Legality too much, yet he is very sensible of his own Legality; a mere Legalist is not, he thinks it strange that we speak of a Legal Spirit in a Gospel-time.
Yet let me tell you this, Though a good and gracious Soul may be overgrown with Legality too much, yet he is very sensible of his own Legality; a meer Legalist is not, he thinks it strange that we speak of a Legal Spirit in a Gospel-time.
And though a good man may be too much overgrown, be too Legal, and too Mosaical; yet notwithstanding he doth not, he cannot, wish that there were ⟨p. 372⟩no Law, because the Law is written in his heart; another that is under the power of the Law, could wish with all his Soul, that there were no Law, because he is under the power of it.
Again, Though a good man may be too much overgrown with Legality, yet he doth most savour the things of the Gospel, spiritual things: For every man is according to what he savours. Three men come to a Sermon — One's an Affectionate man — Another an Expressionate man, a man of parts — Another a Spiritual man; and the Preacher hath (it may be) all three. He hath Affection, he hath Expression, he hath Spiritual matter: The Affectionate man is most taken with the Affectionate part: The Expressionist, and the man of parts, is most taken with the Expressions of the Sermon; and there he hangs, such and such rare Expressions there were — But the Spiritual man is most taken with the Spiritual matter of the Sermon; for every man is according to the things that he savours. Now, I say, a good man, though he may be overgrown with Legality, yet he savours spiritual and Gospel-things most.