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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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There's the work of Creation.
And the work of Providence.
And the work of Redemption.
As for the work of Creation: If it be a sweet thing to behold and to consider the workmanship of the Finger of human wisdom: What a pleasure and sweetness is it to behold the workmanship of the Finger of Infinite wisdom?
As for the work of Creation: If it be a sweet thing to behold and to consider the workmanship of the Finger of human wisdome: What a pleasure and sweetness is it to behold the workmanship of the Finger of Infinite wisdome?
And as for the works of Providence: If the meditation and the Consideration of the Providence of God be our great help against the pain of unbelieving thoughts; Then it must needs be a sweet thing to meditate on God in this respect. Friends, ye tha know God, have experience how painful unbelieving thoughts are; Great is the pain of unbelieving thoughts—well, but what help against this pain?— The Consideration of the Providence of God: Saith our Saviour in the 10th Matthew, The very hairs o your Head are all numbered, fear ye not therefore, ye ar of more value than many Sparrows,—what then— take no thought, here lies your relief; The Consideration, and the meditation of the special providence of God, is your help against painful unbelief,