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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 then again, Though a good man may be too Legal, yet notwithstanding, he don't, he cannot, oppose those that are Spiritual, and Evangelical, and of a Gospel Spirit. Though a spark of fire be not so great as the flame, it will not oppose the flame; and though a good man be too Legal, he will not oppose and persecute them that are Evangelical, a Legalist will; saith the Apostle, But the Son of the Bond-woman, persecuted the S•n of the Free-woman. And truly, the more Legal we are, the more we are apt for to persecute. So that thus then we see what a dangerous thing it is to be Legal and Mosaical in these Gospel times.
But Fifthly, What shall we then do, that we may stand clear from Moses, and come off clearly unto Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant?
This I must speak unto: only by the way, give me leave to say three or four things unto you.
First, If we are not come to Moses, the Mediator of the Old Covenant, but unto Jesus, the Mediator of the New; What a blessed, and happy condition are all the Saints in now in these Gospel-times? It was a comfortable thing for the Jews to have Moses with them, that Mediator, that upon all occasions he might interpose between God and them. But alas, what was that Moses, to this Jesus, this Mediator of ours. Though Moses was the Mediator of the Old Testament, and did stand between God and the People: Yet