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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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Fourthly, In regard of your repentance and sorrow for sin, the more your hearts do melt, and thaw under sense of love, that you have sinned against God: For the Law rends and tears; but the Gospel melts and thaws.— The more that you grieve for sin, and rejoice in God together.— The more you grieve for sin that is pardoned, and because 'tis pardoned: For a legal Spirit grieves for sin, only that it may be ⟨p. 381⟩pardoned; but a Gospel spirit because it is pardoned.— And the more you grieve for sins that are secret, the sins of your spirits, especially unbelief: For saith Christ, I say unto you, he that locketh upon a woman, &c. The more I say you are found doing these things in reference to your Repentance, the more your Repentance suits with the Gospel, and with a Gospel state. And then,
Fourthly, In regard of your repentance and sorrow for sin, the more your hearts do melt, and thaw under sense of love, that you have sin'd against God: For the Law rends and tears; but the Gospel melts and thaws.— The more that you grieve for sin, and rejoyce in God together.— The more you grieve for sin that is pardoned, and because 'tis pardoned: For a legal Spirit grieves for sin, onely that it may be ⟨p. 381⟩pardoned; but a Gospel spirit because it is pardoned.— And the more you grieve for sins that are secret, the sins of your spirits, especially unbelief: For saith Christ, I say unto you, he that locketh upon a woman, &c. The more I say you are found doing these things in reference to your Repentance, the more your Repentance suits with the Gospel, and with a Gospel state. And then,
Fifthly, As to the matter of your Obedience.