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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.
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.
3. Be sure of this, That you never come to say, God will never return again; though you say, Lord, how long! yet never say, God is gone, and will return no more. Poor drooping, afflicted and deserted soul, be sure of this, that you never say, God will never return; lo, he cometh leaping over the Mountains, over difficulties to you; Only be you willing to go leaping over the Mountains of difficulties for to meet with him.