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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.
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But then, This must be in reference to ones own profit and benefit. Though I do think, and think much of sin, if I do not think thereof to leave it, it is not Meditation.— Though I think on the life and the death of Christ, if it be not to conform unto him, these thoughts will not amount to Meditation.— Though I think on the love and goodness of God, yet if it be not to get my heart inflamed with love thereby, it will not amount to Meditation.
But then, This must be in reference to ones own profit and benefit. Though I do think, and think much of sin, if I do not think thereof to leave it, it is not Meditation.— Though I think on the life and the death of Christ, if it be not to conform unto him, these thoughts will not amount to Meditation.— Though I think on the love and goodness of God, yet if it be not to get my heart inflam'd with love thereby, it will not amount to Meditation.
Plainly then, Meditation for the true Nature, and the Notion of't, is a vehement, an intense application of the soul, unto a thing; whereby a mans mind doth dwell, and insist, and abide upon it, for his profit, and benefit: that's the first.
2. But then Secondly, How and in what respects may a man be said to meditate on God?