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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.
But, Secondly, Hard work you say, and therefore how can it be delightful!
Friends, The harder the work is, the sweeter it is, being overcome: 'Tis a sweet thing to overcome: ⟨p. 428⟩'Tis hard thing to fight, but 'tis a sweet thing to overcome: The harder the Nut is to crack, the sweeter is the meat when it is cracked; the harder the Scripture is that is to be opened, the sweeter is the kernel, the truth when it is opened. When God opened the Rock, the Waters that flowed out were as sweet as honey. Now meditation makes a Conquest of the work.
Friends, The harder the work is, the sweeter it is, being overcome: 'Tis a sweet thing to overcome: ⟨p. 428⟩'Tis hard thing to fight, but 'tis a sweet thing to overcome: The harder the Nutt is to crack, the sweeter is the meat when it is crackt; the harder the Scripture is that is to be opened, the sweeter is the kernel, the truth when it is opened. When God opened the Rock, the Waters that flowed out were as sweet as honey. Now meditation makes a Conquest of the work.
3. Though it be a hard thing to meditate on God and the things of God, yet notwithstanding do but consider why the wo•k is hard, and you will say that the difficulty of the work is no Impeachment to the suavity, or the sweetness thereof. There are two things that make meditation hard: