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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.
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 ⟨p. 417⟩there be a Musical Instrument and one string out of order, all jarr'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.
And if the Names, Titles, Attributes of God be your relief in all Conditions; Then it must needs be a sweet thing to meditate on God in this respect. Why now; The name of the Lord is a strong Tower, the righteous fly thereunto and are safe. A sweet thing it is therefore to meditate on God in this respect.