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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.
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
1. He was but a Typical Mediator; and therefore look how much the thing Typified goes beyond the type, the substance goes beyond the shadow: so much doth our Mediator go beyond theirs.
2. Again, Though Moses was a Mediator between God and them, yet he was but mere man; but J sus the Mediator of the New Covenant, is God and man; very God, and very man. In Rom. 9.5. Whose are the Fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, there's his Manhood. Who is over all, God blessed for ever, Amen. God, truly, not nuncupatively; truly God, and truly man.