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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
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2. God will so carry on the work of his Grace and mercy, that all his mercies and blessings now may be conformed to the womb that bare them. The Child follows the womb that bare it: The first in every Kind is the Rule of the rest. Now Election is the womb of all our mercies; and doth not ⟨p. 489⟩preventing Love sway there? I have loved Jacob, and hated Esau, before they had done either good or evil; there's preventing love. Now I say, God will so carry on the work of his mercy, that all his mercies and blessings may be conformed to their first original Election, and there preventing mercy is very sweet.
3. But thirdly, God will so carry on the work of his mercy, as it may be most taking and effective upon the souls of the children of men; and what is more taking then preventing love? What more Operative, what more Powerful, what more taking I say? You know the Parable; some were invited to the Supper, and some not invited, some came, and some came not; who were those that came? who were those that came not? those that came not, were such as were invited; those that came, were such as were in the Lanes, High-ways and Hedges, compelled to come in. Ay, preventing love is the most taking; now God will so carry on the work of his mercy, as it may be most taking, and most effective upon the souls of the children of men.
3. But thirdly, God will so carry on the work of his mercy, as it may be most taking and effective upon the souls of the children of men; and what is more taking then preventing love? What more Operative, what more Powerfull, what more taking I say? You know the Parable; some were invited to the Supper, and some not invited, some came, and some came not; who were those that came? who were those that came not? those that came not, were such as were invited; those that came, were such as were in the Lanes, High-wayes and Hedges, compelled to come in. Ay, preventing love is the most taking; now God will so carry on the work of his mercy, as it may be most taking, and most effective upon the souls of the children of men.