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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
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.
Preventing Mercy. SERMON X.
Psalm 21.3. For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness. Thou hast given him his hearts desire, and hast not with-holden the request of his lips, Selah. For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness.
Psalm 21.3. For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse. Thou hast given him his hearts desire, and hast not with-holden the request of his lips, Selah. For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse.
This Psalm is a Psalm of Thanksgiving, wherein the Psalmist doth profess, that he will joy in the Lord, vers. 1. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord, and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Why so? because that the Lord had heard and granted his Petition, Thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips, vers. 2. yea, more then so, Thou hast given him his hearts desire, vers. 2. yea more then so, thou hast given him more then he asked, for he asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever, vers. 4. Yet more then so, thou hast not only given him his hearts desire, an answer to his Prayer, and more then he prayed for, but thou hast prevented him with the blessings of goodness. As if he should say, Lord, I never asked a Kingdom, ⟨p. 477⟩I never thought of a Kingdom, but thou hast prevented me with the blessings of thy goodness, and thou hast set a Crown of pure Gold on my head; blessings of goodness in the Hebrew is put for good blessings, wherewith the Lord did anticipate the Psalmist; for thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness; in the consideration of which preventing Love and Grace, his heart was much warmed, and affected.