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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. Then put your selves upon the stream of the free Grace of God, without having any foot on your own bottom: Some men will learn to swim, and they are loth to lean themselves upon the stream of the ⟨p. 379⟩water, but keep a foot at the bottom; and they never learn to swim, till they take up the foot: Some would fain be Evangelical, but they cannot lean themselves upon the stream of Grace, but keep a foot at the bottom still, upon some thing of their own.
Some there are that do, and work, and when they can work no further, then they eke it out with Christ's Mediation. So indeed they make the Mediation of Christ but an Eekment to their own working: But away with these Eekments: Oh, let Christ be all, let Christ be all! And therefore,
5. Study much the body of Jesus, and the allsufficiencie of the Mediation of this Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant: The sight of Gods Alsufficiencie, will draw one off from the Creature: And the sight of the Alsufficiencie of the Mediation of Christ, will draw one off from Moses. Put thy self often unto this Disjunction: Come O my soul, either there is enough in the Mediation of Jesus, or not: If not enough, why do I go unto Christ at all; if there be enough, why should I not stand clear from Moses, and upon pure Gospel ground? Thus therefore do.