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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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Answ. First, If you be indeed come unto Jesus, this Mediator of the New Covenant, and would walk suitably thereunto: Why then, should you not still throng and press after the Appointments, Institutions, and Ordinances of Jesus? The Law and the Prophets were until John, but from John the Baptist, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence; that was suitable to the ⟨p. 380⟩Gospel.— And what was the suffering violence, but peoples pressing after the Gospel: So now, to press after the Kingdom of Heaven, suites with a Gospel state; to press after the Ordinances, and Appointments of Jesus, suites with a Gospel sta•e.
Answ. First, If you be indeed come unto Jesus, this Mediator of the New Covenant, and would walk sutably thereunto: VVhy then, should you not still throng and press after the Appointments, Institutions, and Ordinances of Jesus? The Law and the Prophets were untill John, but from John the Baptist, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence; that was sutable to the ⟨p. 380⟩Gospel.— And what was the suffering violence, but peoples pressing after the Gospel: So now, to press after the Kingdom of Heaven, suites with a Gospel state; to press after the Ordinances, and Appointments of Jesus, suites with a Gospel sta•e.
But secondly, Labour more and more for to know your Christian liberty, in Conjunction with strictness of life. Some there are that are very strict in their lives, but they don't know their Christian liberty; some again know their Christian liberty, yet abate in their strictness of life: But blessed is that knowledge of our Christian liberty, that is in conjunction with more strictness of life. Oh blessed! blessed is that knowledge of our Christian liberty, where strictness of life, and holiness, grow up together with it. Therefore I say, labour more and more to know your Christian liberty in conjunction with strictness, and holiness of life, this suites a Gospel state; then shall you do as those that are come unto Jesus. But then,