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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
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.
First, The separation from God, and union with Satan, speaks the evil of sin. As by Grace we are united unto God, made One with God, and separated from the Devil: so by sin we are separated from God, and united unto Satan, and made one with him.
First, The separation from God, and union with Satan, speakes the evill of sin. As by Grace we are united unto God, made One with God, and separated from the Devil: so by sin we are separated from God, and united unto Satan, and made one with him.
2. The Condemnation of the whole World by the sin of Adam, speaks the evil of sin: If the eating of the Apple, committing that one sin, brought Condemnation upon all the World, how g eat must the evil of sin be!
2. The Condemnation of the whole World by the sin of Adam, speaks the evill of sin: If the eating of the Apple, committing that one sin, brought Condemnation upon all the World, how g eat must the evil of sin be!
3. The fire of Hell speaks the evil of sin, for what is the fuel that the fire of hell feeds upon, but sin; take sin away, and the fire of Hell will die, it will be quenched.
3. The fire of Hell speaks the evil of sin, for what is the fewel that the fire of hell feeds upon, but sin; take sin away, and the fire of Hell will die, it will be quencht.