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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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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.
And 2. If your question do concern the public, or the Nation, What shall we do till God do return again?
And 2. If your question do concern the publick, or the Nation, What shall we do till God do return again?
I answer, Then go and lament after God. Is God gone and is God departed in a great measure from this Nation? now go and lament after God. Twenty years when the Ark was taken, the children of Israel lamented after God in the Ark. How long how long God may stay at a distance from us, God only knows; in the interim let us all now go and lament after God. And