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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.
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
2. Be sure that you keep his Ambassadors with you. When he calls home his Ambassadors, he proclaims War against a Nation; but so long as he hath any Agents among you, he is not quite gone. And
2. Be sure that you keep his Ambassadors with you. When he calls home his Ambassadors, he proclaims Warr against a Nation; but so long as he hath any Agents among you, he is not quite gone. And