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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

saith Moses now And therefore saith Christ If thy Brother offend thee tell him of it and if he hear not call two or three and if he mind not then tell it to the Church and if he hear not the Church let him be as a Heathen or Publican to you for when two or three are gathered together in my Name I am in the midst of them Matth. 18. We are to hear what Jesus saith in this matter and not what Moses And as then in the times of the Old Testament they had recourse to Moses under God for their Ministry and Moses did direct them unto Priests and Levites for their Ministers So now in the times of the New Testament we are to have recourse to Jesus for our Ministry and therefore saith the Apostle He hath set in the Church Pastors and Teachers And in Ephes 4. He hath ascended up on high and he hath given gifts unto Men Pastors a●d Teachers and the like We are to hear what Jesus saith now and not what Moses for our Ministry And as in the times of the Old Testament they had then recourse unto Moses for the Ordinances for their Sabbaths for their Sacraments and for their Worship So now in the times of the New Testament we are to hear what Jesus saith and to have recourse to him for these things Go saith our Saviour Christ and teach all Nations baptizing them and teaching them to observe and do what I command you Matth. 28. And for the Lords Supper What I received of the Lord that delivered we unto you saith the Apostle And for the Sabbath The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath Go to him for your Sabbath not to Moses but unto him And for Worship saith our Saviour Christ unto the Woman of Samaria John 4.23 The hour cometh and now is when the true Worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him You that are Samaritans you have worshipt God but you have not worshipt God according to his own appointment you have not worshipt him in Truth The Jews they have worshipt God according to Gods appointment but not with the Spirit But now the hour cometh when men shall worsh●p the Father in Spirit and in Truth In Truth in opposition to Samaritans that did not worship according to appointment And in Spirit in opposition to the Jews that worshipt God Legally and without the Spirit Thus we must hear what Jesus saith And as then in the times of the Old Testament they had recourse to Moses still when they wanted Bread he under God gave them Manna and he gave them water out of the Rock So now in the times of the New Testament we are to have recourse to Jesus for our Bread In John 6. saith Christ Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for the mea● that indureth to everlasting life which the Son of man shall give unto you for him hath God the Father sealed And as in the times of the Old Testament they had much recourse to Moses for their Faith If they could not believe Moses wrought miracles before them and they believed Insomuch as it s said in the 14. of Exod. last And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians and the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and his Servant Moses But now what saith Jesus Let not your heart be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me Not in God and in Moses but ye believe in God believe also in me And to say no more in it but this In the times of the Old Testament they had recourse to Moses for their Rest M●ses was to lead them up to Canaan and the Land of Rest And so now in the times of the New Testament we are to have recourse to Jesus for our Rest for saith he himself Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest Thus as in the times of the Old Testament they were upon all occasions to have recourse to Moses So now in the times of the New Testament upon all occasions we are to have recourse to Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament for saith the Lord by Moses in the 18. of Deut. 18. v. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their Brethren like unto thee rather as thee that is as I raised up thee and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him Which the Apostle applies unto Christ Acts 3.22 For Moses truly said unto the Fathers a Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethren like unto me rather as me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as me that is as he raised up me not like unto me as the Socinians would argue from hence That Chri● must be but Man like to Moses For Moses truly sai● unto the Fathers a Prophet shall the Lord your Go● raise up unto you of your Brethren like unto me rather as me That is as he raised up me Him shal● ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say un● you So that thus As they had recourse to Mose● upon all occasions in the time of the Old Testament so now we are to have recourse unto Jesus And thu● we see what it is to come unto Jesus the Mediator o● the New Covenant in opposition unto Moses the Mediator of the Old Covenant 2. But then secondly Whether is it possible for a man that doth profess to come unto Jesus the Mediaator of the New Covenant still to have recourse to Moses that is Whether is it possible for a man to be Legal and Mosaical in these Gospel times Without all doubt it is and I wish if it were the will of the Lord that too many were not found upon Legal ground among Pr●f●ssors What think you of the Galatians Did not they live in Gospel Times Did not they profess to come unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant Yet see how the Apostle treats them and reproves them again and again for their being too Legal too Mosaical Ye are fallen from Grace saith he My little children of whom I trav●● in birth again till Christ be formed in you Ye are so much for Moses and the Law that I travel in birth again till Christ be formed in you As there was a mixture of the Gospel in the time of the Law so there may be too great a mixture of the Law in the times of the Gospel And I pray what think you Are there not very many that live under the Gospel in whom sin reigns Yes many live under the Gospel in whom sin reigns And saith the Apostle Let not sin reign in your mortal bodies for ye are not under the Law but under Grace If you be under the Law then sin will reign in you And what 's the reason that sin reigns in many that live under the Gospel

workings of the Law first Yet notwithstanding if I will lay a necessity upon such a precedency of a legal work before I do come to Christ then I am too legal 7. In the times of the Old Testament men did then upon any great discovery of God flie from God as when God gave out the Law they fled from God And when Christ did a great work before Peter Lord saith he depart from me for I am a sinful man But now in the Gospel the greater the discovery is the more a Gospel Spirit doth draw near to God Oh 't is good for me to be here saith he 8. The time of the Old Testament was a time of the Letter And therefore if a man of a legal spirit can but perform his duty according to the Letter of the Commandment he is satisfied But the times of the New Testament are the times of the Spirit We are not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit And therefore a Gospel spirit though he can perform his duty according to the Letter of the Command yet if he don't attain the spirit in it he is unsatisfied 9. To say no more in it but this In the times of the Old Testament God spake by Visions and Dreams and Signs But now in these latter days he hath spoken by his Son and we have a more sure word of Prophesie whereunto we do well that we take heed So that thus you see that there is a difference and what the difference is between the way of the Old and New Testament between an Old Testament and a New Testament spirit F●urthly But then 4ly Suppose now that I have recourse too much to M●ses in these Gospel times and not enough unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant Suppose I be legal in these Gospel times is there any great danger in it Much very much And I pray consider it that we may be all found upon Gospel ground in this Gospel day Danger I say much For I. The more legal you are in Gospel times the more sinful you will be and the less able for to live unto God 1. The more sinful you will be For saith the Apostle Let not sin reign in your mortal body for ye are not under the Law but under Grace And the less able you will be to live unto God For saith the Apostle Gal. 2.19 I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might live unto God Till ye be dead unto the Law you will never live unto God and in the Rom. 7. Ye are become dead to the Law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit untr God Dead unto the Law That ye may bring forth fruit unto God Never think of bringing forth fruit unto God while you are upon a legal ground and come not off fully to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant 'T is observed that the Law was given out twice in Tables of Stone And the first time that they were given out God did cut out the Tables of Stone and he himself did write the Law with his own Finger in those Tables The second time Moses cut out the Tables of Stone and Moses wrote the words of the Commandment upon those Tables In the 34. of Exod. Hew thee two Tables of Stone like unto the first saith God Well so he did at the 28. v. And he wrote upon the Tables the words of the Covenant the Ten Commandments The first Tables were of Gods own making and the writing was of Gods own Finger The second Tables were of Moses framing and Moses writing and yet the first were broken the second kept What should be the Reason One would think that the first Tables should have been kept as a holy thing rather then the second but the first were broken and the second kept why For a good reason saith Austine because when the Commandment was given in the first Tables then God appeared in a dreadful way with Thundring and Lightning When God gave out the Commandments again the Lord appeared in a way of Grace The Lord proclaimed unto Moses Exod 34. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands Thus God proclaimes himself as a gracious and merciful God and when the Law comes out now 't is kept No such way to keep the Commandments of the Law as from the consideration of the free grace and mercy of God When the Law comes out with a Gospel hand I then it 's kept and the Commandment not broken So that I say the more Legal you are the more sinful you will be and the less able you will be for to live unto God 2. The more Legal you are the more opposite you are to your own assurance to a full setled assurance of your interest in God and Christ We have not received the Spirit of bondage you read it again to fear but the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Assurance is a work of the Comforter but the Spirit of servitude 't is opposite to the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father 't is a great Enemy unto true assurance Now is it not a miserable thing for a man or woman to be always fluctuating and never to have assurance setled The more Legal you are the more opposite to your own assurance But 3. Though you do serve and worship the true God yet if you worship him in a Legal way your worship will be Antichristian For what 's Antichrist and who is Antichrist The Apostle John tells you in the 1 Epist 4.3 Every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that Spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that it should come But shall Antichrist deny Christ to be come in the flesh in so many terms No He shall not deny the Incarnation of Christ for he shall sit in the Temple of God How then shall Antichrist deny Christ to be come ●n the flesh He shall set up such a Worship as was before Christ came in the flesh As in the time of the Old Testament before Christ came in the flesh there was an outward glorious and a pompous Worship so shall Antichrist have As in the time of the Old Testament before Christ came in the flesh there was a Temple and a great Cathedral so shall Antichrist have As in the time of the Old Testament before Christ came in the flesh there was a High-Priest and Priests and Levites so shall Antichrist have As in the time of the Old Testament before Christ came in the flesh there were Copes and Ephods and Linnen Coats so shall Antichrist have As in the time of the Old Testament before Christ came in the flesh there were Candles and Tapers and Musick in the Temple so shall Antichr●st have As in the

commanded by Moses in the Old-Testament and go unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament for grace to perform them There is nothing commanded in the Old Testament but it 's promised in the New There is nothing commanded by Moses in the Old Testament but Christ the Mediator of the New Testament is ingaged to perform it for you and to give you grace to do it The Law commands and Grace helps The Law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth comes by Jesus Christ Observe therefore what that is that is commanded by Moses in the Old and go to Jesus the Mediator of the New for Grace and Strength to do the same 3. Then be sure that you stand when the Spirit breathes Now the Spirit brea●hes in the pure and clean preaching of the Gospel Received ye the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of Faith VVould you be brought off from Moses and stand clear from Moses choose to stand under such a Preaching where the Spirit breathes and that 's a Gospel Preaching 4. Then put your selves upon the stream of the free Grace of God without having any foot on your own bottom Some men will learn to swim and they are loth to lean themselves upon the stream of the water but keep a foot at the bottom and they never learn to swim till they take up the foot Some would fain be Evangelical but they cannot lean themselves upon the stream of Grace but keep a foot at the bottom still upon some thing of their own Some there are that do and work and when they can work no further then they eke it out with Christ's Mediation So indeed they make the Mediation of Christ but an Eekment to their own working But away with these Eekments Oh let Christ be all let Christ be all And therefore 5. Study much the body of Jesus and the allsufficiencie of the Mediation of this Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant The sight of Gods Alsufficiencie will draw one off from the Creature And the sight of the Alsufficiencie of the Mediation of Christ will draw one off from Moses Put thy self often unto this Disjunction Come O my soul either there is enough in the Mediation of Jesus or not If not enough why do I go unto Christ at all if there be enough why should I not stand clear from Moses and upon pure Gospel ground Thus therefore do Quest But Suppose I have come to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant what should I do that I may walk up unto this condition What should I do and how should I so walk as one that is indeed come unto Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant that yet I may stand upon Gospel ground and not touch at all upon Moses Answ First If you be indeed come unto Jesus this Mediator of the New Covenant and would walk sutably thereunto VVhy then should you not still throng and press after the Appointments Institutions and Ordinances of Jesus The Law and the Prophets were untill John but from John the Baptist the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence that was sutable to the Gospel And what was the suffering violence but peoples pressing after the Gospel So now to press after the Kingdom of Heaven suites with a Gospel state to press after the Ordinances and Appointments of Jesus suites with a Gospel sta●e But secondly Labour more and more for to know your Christian ●iberty in Conjunction with strictness of life Some there are that are very strict in their lives but they don't know their Christian l●berty some again know their Christian liberty yet abate in their strictness of life But blessed is that knowledge of our Christian liberty that is in conjunction with more strictness of life Oh blessed blessed is that knowledge of our Christian liberty where strictness of life and holiness grow up together with it Therefore I say labour more and more to know your Christian liberty in conjunction with strictness and holiness of life this suites a Gospel state then shall you do as those that are come unto Jesus But then Thirdly In regard of your Faith Be sure that you close with Christ himself the absolute Promise and live in continual dependence upon Christ this Jesus this Mediator For as living upon an old Stock and a Stock received suited with a covenant of works So living in continual dependence upon Jesus for fresh Grace suites with this covenant of Grace whereof he is Mediator 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 't is pardoned For a legal Spirit grieves for sin onely that it may be 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 1. The more gracious you are upon the account of Grace the more Evangelical And 2. The more free you are in your actings towards God the more Evagelical those that Jesus makes free are free indeed Free Not from duty but free in duty free from sin but not free to sin A legal Spirit is restrained from evil and constrained to good Labour to be free in all your actings towards God And 3. Then again The more you are conformed unto God the Father who hath given you this Mediator and to Jesus this Mediator the more Evangelical you are and the more you suite with this Gospel state unto which you are come Now a man is conformed unto God the Father when he doth good to men for evil Bless them that curse you so shall ye be the children of your Father Then a man is conformed to Jesus this Mediator when his life is inammeled with Meekness and Humility Learn of me saith Christ for I am meek and lowly Friends the Law frets and the Gospel sweetens 4. And then In case that you have to deal with the things of the w●rld The more you are estranged from the world by Faith and can forsake the things thereof for Christ and his Wayes and Truth bearing witness to his Truth and wayes the more you comply and comport with a Gospel state If thou wilt be perfect saith Christ to that Legalist go and sell all that thou hast and come and follow me and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven And In case that you meet with sufferings look upon all your sufferings as part of Christs purchase for you Your