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A77360	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.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing B4449A; ESTC R225773	165,221	279

made with Christ and his Seed and if you be Abrahams Seed then are you the Seed of Christ for you may see how they go together in the third Chapter of the Galathians Now to Abraham and his Seed were the Promises made he saith not unto Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ And if you do believe as Abraham did then are you Abrahams Seed So that thus briefly you see who this Covenant is stricken with and who are the subjects of it 5. But then fifthly suppose I be in Covenant with the Lord or suppose I be not if I be not is there any great hurt suppose I be is there any great good Much every way give me leave to give you a little tast of it First If you be not in Covenant with God how can you expect any blessing mercy or deliverance from God for do but look into the Scripture and you shall find that all blessings mercies and deliverances come to the people of God by vertue of the Covenant and according to the Covenant Will you instance in outward deliveranc●s the World is not drowned again Why but because of the Covenant Will you instance in spiritual deliverances saith the Psalmist He commandeth redemption he remembreth the Covenant He maketh Redemption effectual by remembring the Covenant Or will you instance in both together see what is said in the 9th of Zech. 11. As for thee also by the blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water It includes both outward and spiritual deliverances So that now if you be not in Covenant with God what deliverance can you expect or what mercy seeing they all come by vertue of the Covenant and according to the Covenant But on the other side if you be in Covenant with the Lord then are you exalted and honoured yea greatly honoured For if it be an honour to be in League and Covenant with a great Prince What an honour is it to be in Covenant with the great God When God did speak to Abraham of striking a Covenant with him he falls down upon his face as if he should say Who am I that the great God should be in Covenant with me Again If God be in Covenant with you look whatever excellency there is in God that is made over to you for your use And as that King said to him that was in League with him My Horse is thine and my Men are thine and my Money is thine so when God enters into Covenant with a poor Soul he saith My Wisdome is thine and my Power is thine and my Love and Mercy is thine Whatever excellency there is in God is made over to you being in Covenant with him And if that you be in Covenant with the Lord then all his Retinue his Creatures and his Servants also are in Covenant with you in the 2d of Hos 21. It shall come to pass in that day I will hear saith the Lord I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and they shall hear Jezreel Why vers 19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in Righteousness and in Judgement and in loving Kindness and in Mercies And then it shall come to pass that I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth c. So that if you be in Covenant with God then all his Retinue all his Creatures and all his Servants are in Covenant with you too And if you be in Covenant with the Lord then he is in Covenant with you and your Soul and your Body both not on●ly with your Body but with your Soul and not onely with your Soul but with your Body with your whole man and therefore if you dye the Covenant is not dissolved between God and you The Covenant may be dissolved between a Man and his Wife at Death but this Covenant can never be dissolved and though you sin and break with God God will not break with you I hate putting away saith he And then you may go to God as upon a Throne of Grace and look upon God as sitting in a Rainbow Oh what a mercy what a blessing is it to be in Covenant with the Lord But in case I be not in Covenant with God what shall I do to get into Covenant with him And in case I be in Covenant with God how shall I walk so as becometh one that is in Covenant with the great God Here are two Questions I shall speak briefly to them and conclude First Do you ask what you shall do to get into Covenant Are you affraid any of you that you are not yet in Covenant with the Lord and would you be in Covenant with the Lord Why then be sure of this that upon a right and good understanding of the nature of this Covenant you go to God and make your choise of this Covenant of Grace to stand and fall by The word Berith in the Hebrew for Covenant some think comes from a root that signifies to choose a man is in the Covenant that he chooses and every man is indeed as his choise is But then go and renounce the other Covenant of Works c. As the way to have a part in Christs Righteousness is to renounce all your own Righteousness so the way to have a share in this Covenant of Grace is to renounce the Covenant o● Works Then go to Christ as the Mediator of the Covenant and desire him to put you into this Covenant He struck the Covenant with God the Father at the first and he must put you into this Covenant for he is the Mediator of the Covenant go then to him as to the Mediator of the Covenant to put you into Covenant Then leave the weight and stress of your Guilty Soul upon this Covenant of Grace bear upon this stream of Grace here lay the weight of all for th● Promise is made ours by resting on it And what is this Covenant but an absolute Promise there then rest and leave the weight of your Souls And to say no more but this Then go unto the Lord and give your hand unto God and your self up to God as one willing to be led by him into all the things that the Covenant shall require In the times of the Old Testament when they made a Covenant they struck hands together In Ezra 10.19 it is said they gave their hands to put away their Wives and in the former verse they made a Covenant to do it They rose and made a Covenant to put away their Wives And we find in the 1 of Chronicles that when David was dead that all the people came together Chap. 24.24 And all the Princes and the Mighty Men and all the Sons likewise of King David submitted themselves unto Solomon the King the word in the

Blood of the Lamb. They have washed their Robes how what with their great Tribulations No They came out of great Tribulations but their Tribulations dont wash them these are they that came out of great Tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Nothing on this side Christ and this blood of sprinkling can cleanse your souls But 4. Though there be nothing on this side Christ that can cleanse your souls but the blood of Jesus yet it is the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle it The blood of Jesus is then sprinkled when it is applied now this is the work of the Holy Ghost I will sprinkle you with clean water I le wash you with water As it is a derogation to the blood of Christ to go to any else for cleansing So 't is a derogation to the Spirit of Christ to go to any else for sprinkling or to go to any else for that application of the Blood of Christ 'T is onely the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle this blood upon your and my soul 5. Though this sprinkling must be done only by the Spirit Yet notwithstanding this blood of Jesus is sprinkled by the ordinance in the hand of the Spirit by the preaching of the Gospel He preaches not that sprinkles not the blood of Christ in preaching and especially by that great ordinance of the Lords Supper You may observe therefore that the same words that were used in the Old Testament when they sprinkled the blood This is the blood of the Covenant as in the 9th of the Hebrews are used by our Saviour Christ at the Lords Supper This Cup is the New Testament in my blood c. Why so but to shew thus much that this ordinance of the Lords Supper is the Hysop in the hand of the Spirit whereby the souls of believers are sprinkled with a fresh sprinkling Oh therefore who would not come to this ordinance of the Lords supper in a right way and manner 6. But then again you must kn●w ●lso that you must come for sprinkling with the great'st sense of unworthines that may be I● you look into the 19th of Numb you shall find that he that sprink●●d the blood was to be unclean until the evening v. 7. Then the Priest shall wash his cloaths and he sh●l b● t●e his flesh in W●ter and afterward he shall come into the Camp And the Priest shall be unclean until the evening At v. 6. The Priest shall take Cedar-wood and Hysop and Scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning or the Heifer and then the Priest shall wash his cloaths and come into the Camp and shall be unclean until the evening And at the 8th v. He that burneth her sh●ll wash his cloathes in Water and bathe his flesh in Water and shall be unclean until the evening And a man that is clean shall gather up the Ashes of the Heifer and lay them up without the Camp in a clean place and it shall be kept for the Congregation of the children of Israel for a Water of separation It is a purification for sin and he that gathereth the Ashes of the Heifer shall wash his cloaths and be unclean until the evening What 's all this but to shew thus much That they might not come to this sacred Expiation but with the greatest sense of their unworthiness Plainly shewing thus much That there is no medling with this blood of sprinkling but with the greatest sense of our unworthiness of the blood of Jesus Now therefore do you desire that you may be sprinkled with this blood of sprinkling then whensoever you go to the blood of Jesus and look upon it go with the greatest sense of your unworthiness of this blood then go to the Spirit of God whose work alone it is to apply and sprinkle and then stand and wait where the Spirit stands with his Hysop to sprinkle the souls of men and so shall you be made partakers of this great priviledge But suppose that I be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and that this blood of sprinkling hath indeed fallen upon my soul what is my duty then 1. Then Go away and doubt no more When the sinning Jew was sprinkled do you think he doubted whether he were pardoned or no No surely he did believe that he was pardoned and that he was in Covenant with God For those words were used This is the Blood of the Covenant And shall you be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and will you doubt whether you be in Covenant with the Lord by Grace or no c. This blood of sprinkling speaketh and you have heard what it speaks now then I pray take heed that you don't refuse him that speaketh from Heaven mark how it follows in the very next words to the Text We are come to the Blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel See that ye refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on Earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven Why man or woman 't is Jesus that speaketh to thee Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant that speakes un●o you to believe What are you sprinkled go away then and doubt no more but take heed that ye refuse not him that speaketh from Heaven And secondly Then also conclude and say Now know I that I shall be preserved from the destroyer When the Isralites posts were sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb They could say Now know I that I shall not be destroyed by this destroying Angel Art thou sprinkled with the blood of Jesus say then Now know I that I shall not be destroyed but that the Angel shall pass over me in the destroying day 3. Then also go away and be Contented with your Condition what ever it be And well you may if you be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus you are made partakers of the greatest priveledg that can be and will you not then be contented with your Condition Go away and be contented with your Conditions saying I have now received the greatest privelege for I am sprinkled with the blood of Jesus therefore will I be contented with my Condition What ever it be 4. And then go away and praise God and be very thankful Be very thankful to God the Father and to the Lamb with whose blood you are sprinkled Look into the 5th Rev. and you shall find there are 3 quires of Praisers and all praising upon the account of this blood And when he had opened the book v. 9. the 24. Elders fell down before the Lamb and they sung a new song The four and twenty Elders these are men saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood By thy bloud here 's the foot of the Song Then comes in the