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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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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?
Why look when a man doth meditate on the Name, Nature, Titles, and Attributes of God, then he is said to meditate on God.
On the Nature of God: so in Psal. 63. When I remember Thee upon my Bed, and meditate on Thee in the night watches.
And look when a man doth meditate on Christ the Son of God, then he is said for to meditate on God: For Christ is God: and therefore saith the Apostle; Consider the high Priest of your Profession, looking unto Jesus.