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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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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 ⟨p. 378⟩affliction, am dead unto my affliction.— I through the disappointment of Friends, am dead unto my Friends.— I through sin, am dead unto my sin.— I through the Law, and the terrors of the Law, am dead unto the Law. Now then, Improve your former terrors, so as by them to die unto them. You have been under them: I, but have you improved them, have you so improved them, as thereby for to die unto them?
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.— VVhat's that?— I through the Law, am dead unto the Law, that I might live unto God. I through ⟨p. 378⟩affliction, am dead unto my affliction.— I through the disappointment of Friends, am dead unto my Friends.— I through sin, am dead unto my sin.— I through the Law, and the terrors of the Law, am dead unto the Law. Now then, Improve your former terrors, so as by them to die unto them. You have been under them: I, but have you improved them, have you so improved them, as thereby for to die unto them?
2. Observe what those things are that are commanded by Moses, in the Old-Testament, and go unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament, for grace to perform them. There is nothing commanded in the Old Testament, but it's promised in the New. There is nothing commanded by Moses in the Old Testament, but Christ the Mediator of the New Testament, is engaged to perform it for you, and to give you grace to do it: The Law commands, and Grace helps: The Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth, comes by Jesus Christ. Observe therefore, what that is that is commanded by Moses in the Old, and go to Jesus the Mediator of the New, for Grace and Strength to do the same.