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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.
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.
2. Will you Instance in the meditating on Christ the Son of God? You know what is said by the Spouse in the Canticles. I sate down under his shadow: Sate down, how? 'Tis meditation sets the soul down under the shadow of Christ— And then his fruit, whether Justification be the fruit, or sanctification, or Consolation; Then his fruit was sweet unto my taste.
2. Will you Instance in the meditating on Christ the Son of God? You know what is said by the Spouse in the Canticles. I sate down under his shaddow: Sate down, how? 'Tis meditation sets the soul down under the shaddow of Christ— And then his fruit, whether Justification be the fruit, or sanctification, or Consolation; Then his fruit was sweet unto my tast.
And If Jesus Christ be our standing relief against all Temptations, and Desertions; Then it must needs be a sweet thing to meditate and think much on him. Now he is our Brazen Serpent, our standing relief against all our Temptation, and our Desertions.