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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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5. If we be come unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and not unto Moses: Why then should we not all stand clear from Moses, and come fully off to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant?
But you will say, What should we do that we may be found upon Gospel grounds, with a Gospel Spirit. I confess I have been too legal; legal in my performances, legal in my obedience, legal in the matter of my comfort; what should I do now that I may stand clear from Moses, and come fully off to Jesus this Mediator of the New Covenant.
1. Improve all your former legal workings and fears, unto your dying to them; improve them so as by them, to die to them. Many it may be of you here, have been under legal workings, and terrors: Either you have, or you have not; if you have not been under any legal workings or terror, thou art one of a hundred.
If you have, why should you not improve those legal workings, so as by them, to die unto them: saith Paul, I through the Law, am dead unto the Law.— What's that?— I through the Law, am dead unto the Law, that I might live unto God. I through