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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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But 3dly. Though a wicked man may meditate on God and the things of God, and find a sweetness in so doing; yet he doth also find as great, if not a greater sweetness in other things, and in meditating and musing upon his Sins, and in the World, J•b. 20.12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he ⟨p. 431⟩hide it under his tongue, though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it still within his mouth, as a sweet pellet; here is his great delight. Though he may meditate on God, and the things of God, and find some sweetness there, his great delight is here, in his sin; And he finds rather more delight and pleasure in musing on his sin, and sinful course, and meditating on the World and the things thereof, than he finds in meditating on God and the things of God. But now a Gracious man delights in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate: why, but doth he not also stand in the Counsel of the ungodly?—No, he walketh not in the Counsel of the ungodly, but his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his L•w doth he meditate: —he standeth not in the way of sinners: Possibly he may meet with sinners, and wicked men occasionally; but he doth not walk with them ordinarily, he doth not stand with them, but his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate.
But 3dly. Though a wicked man may meditate on God and the things of God, and find a sweetness in so doing; yet he doth also find as great, if not a greater sweetness in other things, and in meditating and musing upon his Sins, and in the World, J•b. 20.12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he ⟨p. 431⟩hide it under his tongue, though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it still within his mouth, as a sweet pellet; here is his great delight. Though he may meditate on God, and the things of God, and find some sweetness there, his great delight is here, in his sin; And he finds rather more delight and pleasure in musing on his sin, and sinfull course, and meditating on the World and the things thereof, than he findes in meditating on God and the things of God. But now a Gracious man delights in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate: why, but doth he not also stand in the Counsel of the ungodly?—No, he walketh not in the Counsel of the ungodly, but his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Lw doth he meditate: —he standeth not in the way of sinners: Possibly he may meet with sinners, and wicked men occasionally; but he doth not walk with them ordinarily, he doth not stand with them, but his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate.