A77360:1065
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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3. But thirdly, If you have tasted of Gods preventing mercy, and have indeed been prevented with the blessings of his goodness, even your very prayers have been prevented with the blessings of his goodness; Why then should ye not be early up, and sooner at your prayers, that if it may be, you may prevent Gods mercy with your prayers, as God hath prevented your prayers with his mercy. When a Master comes into the Chamber where his Servant lies, and finds him in bed, what says the Servant, if he be ingenious? This my Masters coming into my bed-chamber before I was up, is a plain rebuke to my sloth, I will be up the sooner hereafter. So says a gracious ingenious soul, Gods preventing my prayer with his mercy, is a plain rebuke to my prayer; wherefore awake prayer, up prayer, through the grace of God I will never be so tardy again with my Prayer, and Duty; but as God hath prevented my prayer with his mercy, so through grace, I will prevent his mercy with my prayer for the time to come.
3. But thirdly, If you have tasted of Gods preventing mercy, and have indeed been prevented with the blessings of his goodness, even your very prayers have been prevented with the blessings of his goodness; Why then should ye not be early up, and sooner at your prayers, that if it may be, you may prevent Gods mercy with your prayers, as God hath prevented your prayers with his mercy. When a Master comes into the Chamber where his Servant lyes, and finds him in bed, what sayes the Servant, if he be ingenious? This my Masters coming into my bed-chamber before I was up, is a plain rebuke to my sloth, I will be up the sooner hereafter. So sayes a gracious ingenious soul, Gods preventing my prayer with his mercy, is a plaine rebuke to my prayer; wherefore awake prayer, up prayer, through the grace of God I will never be so tardy again with my Prayer, and Duty; but as God hath prevented my prayer with his mercy, so through grace, I will prevent his mercy with my prayer for the time to come.
4. If you have tasted of Gods preventing mercy, and God hath indeed prevented you with the blessings of his goodness, why then should ye not all labour to be like unto God in your dealings with men, preventing them with your loving