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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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7. And though Moses was a mediator between God and them stood between God and them; Yet they were not able to behold his face, after he had been in the Mount, but a Veil was put upon it: But now as for Jesus, We saw his glory, as the glory of the only ⟨p. 375⟩begotten of the Father. And, We all with open face behold as in a glass, the glory of the Lord. What a glorious Mediator have we now? What a blessed condition hath God brought his people to now? Friends, will you not be thankful for this Mediator, will ye return to Moses now; what, having such a Mediator, will ye now return to Moses, and be legal now? Consider what a blessed state ye are now brought unto.
7. And though Moses was a mediator between God and them stood between God and them; Yet they were not able to behold his face, after he had been in the Mount, but a Vail was put upon it: But now as for Jesus, We saw his glory, as the glory of the onely ⟨p. 375⟩begotten of the Father. And, We all with open face behold as in a glass, the glory of the Lord. What a glorious Mediator have we now? What a blessed condition hath God brought his people to now? Friends, will you not be thankful for this Mediator, will ye return to Moses now; what, having such a Mediator, will ye now return to Moses, and be legal now? Consider what a blessed state ye are now brought unto.
2. But secondly, If we are now come unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and not unto Moses: Why then should we go to men for the Worship of God, and for the Ordinances of God? What, may we not have recourse to Moses, and shall we have recourse to men? Moses spake from God, and spake the words of God unto the people; and, may we not have recourse now to Moses for the Ordinances, and Worship, and shall we have recourse to men for our Worship, and Ordinances? As Gersom out of Austin observes: One commandment from a fellow-servant, is more burdensome then a hundred from the Master; and Moses spake the words of God: If Moses Tool doth defile our Christian Altar, how much more doth the Tool of man defile our Altar? That's the second.