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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
Sermons › Sermon 7: The Sweetness and Profitableness of Divine Meditation. SERM. VII.
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.
Take the words as they lie in themselves, and you have this Doctrine presently.
Doct. That 'tis a sweet thing for a gracious soul to meditate on God: Meditation work, is sweet work. A gracious soul doth find sweetness, in meditating on God: David was a gracious man, and he found sweetness in this work of Meditation on God. 'Tis the property then of a gracious soul, to find sweetness in meditating on God.
For the opening and prosecuting of which Argument;
First, We will inquire what this Meditation is, what is the true Nature and Notion of Meditation.
2. How, and in what respects, a man may be said to meditate on God.