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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
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Look when the great Promise of the Father is fulfilled, then is the Father glorified. What's the great Promise of the Father? Acts 1. The coming of the Holy Ghost. By Christ's going to the Father comes the Holy Ghost: Therein was the Father glorified then.
And look, when Every tongue shall confess that Jesus is the Lord, to the glory of the Father, then is the Father glorified. Now by Christ's going to the Father, being exalted, every tongue doth confess, that Jesus is the Lord, to the glory of the Father, as in Philip. 2.
And look, when Every tongue shall confesse that Jesus is the Lord, to the glory of the Father, then is the Father glorified. Now by Christ's going to the Father, being exalted, every tongue doth confesse, that Jesus is the Lord, to the glory of the Father, as in Philip. 2.
And to say no more in it but this: Look, when the great design of God upon the world is accomplished, ⟨p. 10⟩and Christ the Son glorified, then is the Father glorified. Now by Christ's going to the Father the great design of God is accomplished, and the So• glorified. Thus we have cause of rejoicing in reference to the concernment of God the Father: Loo• where you will, —will you look upon your ow• concernment, —will you look upon the concernment of Christ, —will you look upon the concernment of God the Father, there is matter of our rejoicing in Christ's going to the Father. And so have done with the first thing. But then