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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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4. Again, Though Moses was a Mediator then between ⟨p. 374⟩God and them, and stood between God and them; yet he was not able to do that work of mediation perfectly: I am not Eloquent, saith he; and I am not able to bear all this people, saith he: But now saith Jesus, He hath given me the Tongue of the Learned, that I may administer a word in due season, to them that are weary: He hath born us, and he hath born our griefs.
5. Again, Though Moses stood between God and them, and was a Mediator between God and them, and did sometimes make an Atonement, as in the ca•e of the Golden Calf, when they had sinned; yet notwithstanding, he destroyed th•ee thousand of them: Peradventure, saith he, (after he had done it) I shall m•ke an Atonement for your sin, Exod. 32.•0. And he steps in to God for them: And the L•rd said unto Moses, whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot ou• of my Book: and, I have heard thee, saith he; nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. Now Jesus, he makes an Atonement, slays none, neither doth God the Father make any reserve with him, he freely forgives those that he makes Atonement for, all at once without any reserves, or after reckonings.
5. Again, Though Moses stood between God and them, and was a Mediator between God and them, and did sometimes make an Attonement, as in the ca•e of the Golden Calf, when they had sinned; yet notw•thstanding, he destroyed th•ee thousand of them: Peradvenure, saith he, (after he had done it) I shall mke an Attonement for your sin,