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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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Every thing is hard at the first: Writing is hard at the First, Painting hard at the first, and the getting Languages hard at the first. A Trade is hard at the First. So certainly the work of meditation will be hard at the first: There is nothing not hard to those that are unwilling, There is nothing hard to those that Love. Love makes all things easy: Is it an hard thing for a Lover to think or meditate on the Person loved? Is it a hard thing for a Child at a distance from his Father to think or meditate on his Father, and his Father's love and kindness, is this hard? Indeed to a Rebellious Child 'tis hard, to a Child that's run away from his Father 'tis hard; but for a loving and an obedient Child, it is not hard. And what's the reason that the work of meditation is so hard to many of us, but because in truth we are not used thereunto—or because we are rebellious Children, and don't love the Lord as we ought to do.
Every thing is hard at the first: Writing is hard at the First, Painting hard at the first, and the getting Languages hard at the first. A Trade is hard at the First. So certainly the work of meditation will be hard at the first: There is nothing not hard to those that are unwilling, There is nothing hard to those that Love. Love makes all things easie: Is it an hard thing for a Lover to think or meditate on the Person loved? Is it a hard thing for a Child at a distance from his Father to think or meditate on his Father, and his Father's love and kindness, is this hard? Indeed to a Rebellious Child 'tis hard, to a Child that's run away from his Father 'tis hard; but for a loving and an obedient Child, it is not hard. And what's the reason that the work of meditation is so hard to many of us, but because in truth we are not used thereunto—or because we are rebellious Children, and don't love the Lord as we ought to do.
Quest. But you will say, May not a wicked man meditate on God, and find sweetness in the Work?