A77360:1025
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.
1. It is no new thing for God to walk in a way of preventing love and mercy with the Children of Men: Thus he hath always dealt, doth deal, and will deal so; thus he hath always dealt, so with the World, so with the Nations of the World, so with great Towns and Places, so with Families, and so with particular Souls.
1. It is no new thing for God to walk in a way of preventing love and mercy with the Children of Men: Thus he hath alwayes dealt, doth deal, and will deal so; thus he hath alwayes dealt, so with the World, so with the Nations of the World, so with great Towns and Places, so with Families, and so with particular Souls.
1. As for the World; Did not God first come with his mercy to the World, before the World made after it? God so loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son: But how did he give this gift? Did we beg it first, did we seek it first, or did he first prevent us with it? When Adam, and all the World in Adam had sinned, fallen, did Adam and the World first go to God for Christ, or for the promise of Christ; or did God first give out the promise of Christ, before Adam or the World sought it? The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head; God first gave out this promise of Christ, before Adam or the World sought it. Thus in regard of the World.
1. As for the World; Did not God first come with his mercy to the World, before the World made after it? God so loved the World, that he gave his onely begotten Son: But how did he give this gift? Did we beg it first, did we seek it first, or did he first prevent us with it? When Adam, and all the World in Adam had sinned, fallen, did Adam and the World first go to God for Christ, or for the promise of Christ; or did God first give out the promise of Christ, before Adam or the World sought it? The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head; God first gave out this promise of Christ, before Adam or the World sought it. Thus in regard of the World.