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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.
Now Christ hath loved you, but you were not like unto him when he loved you.
You could do him no kindness, you had no benefits to bestow upon him.
You could do him no kindesse, you had no benefits to bestow upon him.
And you had no love for him: In the day when he said, Now is the time of love, there was no love in your •e•ts for him; and therefore his love must needs be most free. But
3. The more patient that love is, the more i• calls for love again, the more taking it is: Now o•• Saviour Christ stands knocking at your door: give m• leave to say to you, Had Christ come riding Post through your City, and knocked only at your door, and sai• hasten after me, or you are damned for ever, it ha been much; but to stand at your door and knock, day aft day, and year after year, with the unwearied hand o his love. Oh unspeakable patience! unexpressible love yet thus hath Christ done for you, and thus hath Chris loved you, and loved your person; and shall Chris love you, and love your persons, and shall your lov rest any where but in the Person of Christ: Do b consider how he hath loved you, and your person and then your heart will be drawn out to love t Person of Christ. And that's a third. But.