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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.
2. If you have tasted of this preventing love and mercy, go away and be very thankful to God upon this account. Shall David be thankful to the Lord for preventing him, taking him from the Sheep-fold, and will not you be thankful for preventing mercy? Shall Ruth be thankful to Boaz for preventing her with his Kindness, spreading his skirt over her, and will not you be thankful to the Lord for his preventing love to you? Why should ye not all say with David here, He hath prevented me with the blessings of his goodness. Indeed I was a great sinner, but he hath prevented me with his Justifying Mercy; and I was a wandering creature, as a lost sheep, but he hath prevented me with his Redeeming Mercy; God spake once, and twice unto me, and I heard ⟨p. 498⟩it not, but in the deep sleep of my soul, then did he open mine ears, and seal instruction on me before I was aware; therefore all that is within me bless the Lord. O you that are thus prevented, bless the Lord for this his preventing mercy, his sweet mercy.
2. If you have tasted of this preventing love and mercy, go away and be very thankfull to God upon this account. Shall David be thankfull to the Lord for preventing him, taking him from the Sheep-fold, and will not you be thankfull for preventing mercy? Shall Ruth be thankfull to Boaz for preventing her with his Kindness, spreading his skirt over her, and will not you be thankfull to the Lord for his preventing love to you? Why should ye not all say with David here, He hath prevented me with the blessings of his goodness. Indeed I was a great sinner, but he hath prevented me with his Justifying Mercy; and I was a wandring creature, as a lost sheep, but he hath prevented me with his Redeeming Mercy; Gpd spake once, and twice unto me, and I heard ⟨p. 498⟩it not, but in the deep sleep of my soul, then did he open mine ears, and seal instruction on me before I was aware; therefore all that is within me blesse the Lord. O you that are thus prevented, blesse the Lord for this his preventing mercy, his sweet mercy.