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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 9: Gods Return to the Soul or Nation. SERM. IX.
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4. Be sure of this, That you go out of your selves, and lay down all your worldly interests at the feet of the Lord, saying, Come Lord, Return O Lord: not return, O my Trade return; not return, O our Ships return; not return, O our Peace return; but return O Lord, return O Lord. Friends, the more you go out of your selves, the more fit you are for God to return unto you.
5. And to conclude it, If you desire that God should return unto you, and that you may return to God, go then to God, and pray, and say, Turn us O Lord, and we shall be turned. And thus I have spoken to this case.
Yet there is one thing more. It is a tedious thing to lye under Gods departure: There may be hopes that God may return again; But what shall we do in the interim till God returns again?
I will briefly speak to it, and have done.