A77360:61
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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If that we are to Praise God for the Exaltment of Christ, then we are to rejoice therein; for Praise and Rejoicing go together in Scripture. Now, though I cannot praise God, and be thankful that God loves me, I may praise God for this, that the Father loves Christ, and be thankful for his love and his goodness to Christ. Christ praised God for our glory and happiness, though to his own debasement, why ⟨p. 11⟩should not we praise God for his Exaltment, though it be to our debasement?
If that we are to Praise God for the Exaltment of Christ, then we are to rejoyce therein; for Praise and Rejoycing go together in Scripture. Now, though I cannot praise God, and be thankfull that God loves me, I may praise God for this, that the Father loves Christ, and be thankfull for his love and his goodnesse to Christ. Christ praised God for our glory and happinesse, though to his own debasement, why ⟨p. 11⟩should not we praise God for his Exaltment, though it be to our debasement?
If I am to mourn for sin, because it is a dishonour to God, though the sin be to my own profit, then I am to praise God and Christ for his Glory, though it may be in some respects to my prejudice.
B•t besides this, the more Communicative any good is, the more we may, and should rejoice therein. There is abundance of light in the Sun, but if the Sun be not up, and ascended, it cannot give light unto all the world: So now, though there be light in Christ, able to enlighten all the world, yet if this Sun be not up, he cannot give light to all the world: but being now Ascended, he is able to give forth his beams of light unto all the world.