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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
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5. And to say no more in it: No sooner did he come into the presence of God his Father, (that is greater than he, as Mediator) but God the Father did take him into fellowship in the matter of divine worship. Whether I or no, Chr•st qua Mediatour, or quia Mediatour, be to be adored with divine worship, I will ⟨p. 9⟩not now debate; but whatsoever worship was due to God the Father, was given to Christ. Confounded •he all they that worship graven Images, worship him all ye gods. All divine worship due to God the Father, is given to him. Here's an advancement. Now is it not a matter of great rejoicing, that Christ our Head should be thus advanced? Saith the Emperor's Wife, If thou be Caius, I am Caia; —and, If Christ be King, the Church is Queen, Psal. 45. Is it not, I say, a matter of great rejoicing, that Christ our Head should be thus advanced? Now thus he is advanced by his going to God the Father. Thus for the Son's concernment. But
5. And to say no more in it: No sooner did he come into the presence of God his Father, (that is greater than he, as Mediatour) but God the Father did take him into fellowship in the matter of divine worship. Whether I or no, Chr•st qua Mediatour, or quia Mediatour, be to be adored with divine worship, I will ⟨p. 9⟩not now debate; but whatsoever worship was due to God the Father, was given to Christ. Confounded •he all they that worship graven Images, worship him all ye gods. All divine worship due to God the Father, is given to him. Here's an advancement. Now is it not a matter of great rejoycing, that Christ our Head should be thus advanced? Saith the Emperour's Wife, If thou be Caius, I am Caia; —and, If Christ be King, the Church is Queen, Psal. 45. Is it not, I say, a matter of great rejoycing, that Christ our Head should be thus advanced? Now thus he is advanced by his going to God the Father. Thus for the Son's concernment. But