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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.
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.
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.
If your Question do relate unto your particular Souls, and you say, God is now gone from my soul, what shall I do in the interim till God return again?
First, be sure that you carry it as the afflicted Spouse of Christ in the absence of your husband; and for that you may read at large in the book of the Canticles.
2. Be sure of this, That you maintain your interest, and let not the sense of your interest in God and Christ be dissolved. Return O Lord, how long! and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Still they keep their interest, Thy servants still. And so the Spouse, I am my Beloveds, and my Beloved is mine.