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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thus also your Only shall stand in its proper place: For mark where the Apostle places your only; Only, saith he, let your Conversation be as it becomes the Gospel; there stand a Christians only, upon a conversation becoming the Gospel.
Thus also your Onely shall stand in its proper place: For mark where the Apostle places your onely; Onely, saith he, let your Conversation be as it becomes the Gospel; there stand a Christians onely, upon a conversation becoming the Gospel.
Thus also shall you please the Father: The more that you come to Jesus the Mediator, whom the Father hath appointed: And the more your Conversation suites thereunto, the more you please the Father: You can never please the Father more, than in coming to the Son.
Now therefore, as ever you do desire that you may please the Father;
As you do desire, that your only may be found in the right and proper place;
As you do desire, that your onely may be found in the right and proper place;