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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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And if the Consideration, and the meditation of the word of God be our great relief against all the ⟨p. 418⟩scorns and reproaches, and oppositions of the World, then certainly 'tis a sweet thing to meditate on the word of God. Now do but look into the 119th Psal. and you shall find David speaking thus; Remove from me reproach and contempt; Princes did sit and speak against me—what relief had he?—But thy servant did meditate in thy Statutes. Here's his relief, Princes, Great-men; They sate and spake against me, and they reproached me, and they opposed me, but here was my relief, I did meditate in thy word.
And if the Consideration, and the meditation of the word of God be our great relief against all the ⟨p. 418⟩scorns and reproaches, and oppositions of the World, then certainly 'tis a sweet thing to meditate on the word of God. Now do but look into the 119th Psal. and you shall find David speaking thus; Remove from me reproach and contempt; Princes did sit and speak against me—what relief had he?—But thy servant did meditate in thy Statutes. Here's his relief, Princes, Great-men; They sate and spake against me, and they reproach'd me, and they opposed me, but here was my relief, I did meditate in thy word.
But Fourthly, will you Instance in the works of the Lord? There are Three sorts of Gods works.
There's the work of Creation.