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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.
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.
But 3ly. will you Instance in meditating on the Word of God? 'Tis a sweet thing to behold the light; and the word is a light, and Lantern unto our feet. Is it not a sweet thing to taste honey? David saith The word of the Lord was as honey and the honey-Comb. And the more 'tis meditated on, the more fully tasted.
But 3ly. will you Instance in meditating on the Word of God? 'Tis a sweet thing to behold the light; and the word is a light, and Lanthorn unto our feet. Is it not a sweet thing to taste honey? David saith The word of the Lord was as hony and the hony-Comb. And the more 'tis meditated on, the more fully tasted.