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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 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,
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 unbeli•ving thoughts—well, but what help against this pain?— The Consideration of the Providence of God: Sait• our Saviour in the 10th Mathew, The very hairs o• your Head are all numbred, 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 providenc• of God, is your help against painfull unbelief,
And as for the work of Redemption, There all the Attributes of God do meet: There is Wisdom, there is Power, there is Mercy, there is Righteousness, there is Faithfulness: And, If it be a sweet thing to behold the Beams of the Sun, what a sweet thing is it to behold all the Beams of Gods glorious Attributes, meeting in one work; which work the very Angels desire to look into, where the Glory of God is: Certainly, It is a sweet thing then to meditate on God, in regard of his works; These things more generally.