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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.
It is a sweet to meditate on God. Will you instance in the Nature, Name, and Attributes of God?
First is it not a sweet thing to Enjoy God? Enjoyment of God is the life of our lives. And how do we Enjoy God? God doth come down to us, and we do Ascend and go up to him: Some-times God doth come down into our souls? Some-times there is an ascent of the soul unto God. And what is the Ladder whereby we ascend unto God, and take our turns in Heaven with God, but believing Meditation?
First is it not a sweet thing to Injoy God? Injoyment of God is the life of our lives. And how do we Injoy God? God doth come down to us, and we do Ascend and go up to him: Some-times God doth come down into our souls? Some-times there is an ascent of the soul unto God. And what is the Ladder whereby we ascend unto God, and take our turnes in Heaven with God, but believing Meditation?
The more perfect any thing is, the more sweet it is to lay out ones thought there on. Now God is all perfection; There is nothing not perfect in God: If you have a nose-gay made up of flowers, and but one weed, the sweetness of the nose-gay is spoiled; There are perfections in God, and no weeds among them. If ⟨p. 417⟩there be a Musical Instrument and one string out of order, all jar's. There is no string out of order among Gods perfections: perfection and nothing not perfect in God. You account it a sweet thing to see your Lands, and your estate lie together, a sweet thing to see all your Children together: Do but look and meditate on God, and you see all your wealth lie together.
The more perfect any thing is, the more sweet it is to lay out ones thought there on. Now God is all perfection; There is nothing not perfect in God: If you have a nose-gay made up of flowers, and but one weed, the sweetness of the nose-gay is spoyl'd; There are perfections in God, and no weeds among them. If