A77360:69
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.
Why, true love to the Person of Christ will enable us to do this: It will enable us to rejoice in the Personal Exaltment of Christ, though it may be to our own present loss and abasement. —It is a sweet thing to the Lover, to suffer for the Person loved: that is, where love sixth upon the Person, and not upon the benefits, If love be sixth upon the benefit, it is not so, but if upon the person, it is so: So if our love be sixth upon the Person of Christ, this love will enable us to rejoice in the Exaltment of Christ, though it be in our own debasement: Christ rejoiced in our Exaltment, though it was to his own debasement, —why? because he loved our persons, who loved us, and gave himself for us, So that true love unto the Person of Christ, will make us rejoice in his Exaltment, though it may be to our own present debasement,
Why, true love to the Person of Christ will enable us to do this: It will enable us to rejoyce in the Personall Exaltment of Christ, though it may be to our own present losse and abasement. —It is a sweet thing to the Lover, to suffer for the Person loved: that is, where love fixt upon the Person, and not upon the benefits, If love be fixt upon the benefit, it is not so, but if upon the person, it is so: So if our love be fixt upon the Person of Christ, this love will enable us to rejoyce in the Exaltment of Christ, though it be in our own debasement: Christ rejoyced in our Exaltment, though it was to his own debasement, —why? because he loved our persons, who loved us, and gave himself for us, So that true love unto the Person of Christ, will make us rejoyce in his Exaltment, though it may be to our own present debasement,
You will say then, How few are there, that do love Christ indeed: Christ is hard•y loved for Christ: Christ himself is hardly l•ved f•r himself: To love the Person of Christ, how few are there that do that. And so I come unto the fourth thing.
You will say then, How few are there, that do love Christ indeed: Chr•st is hardy loved for Christ: Christ himself is hardly lved fr himself: To love the Person of Christ, how few are there that do that. And so I come unto the fourth thing.