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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 to say no more. Take a wicked man, and though he may meditate on God, and the things of God, and find some sweetness therein, he doth not do this ordinarily, meditate ordinarily, and continually, God is not in all his thoughts, God may be in some of his thoughts, but God is not in all his thoughts. But this meditation of God and the things of God, is the ordinary work of a good man, he delighteth in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate day and night. Meditation on God and the things of God is his ordinary work; So that thus now you see the difference, and thus you see the Doctrine cleared: 'Tis a sweet thing to a gracious soul to meditate on God and the things of God, meditation-work is sweet work to a gracious soul.—Sweet for it is Natural,—Sweet, for it is suitable—Sweet, ⟨p. 132⟩for it is profitable.—Sweet, for it is satisfying —Sweet, for it is delightful: And, If these things be so;
But to say no more. Take a wicked man, and though he may meditate on God, and the things of God, and find some sweetness therein, he doth not do this ordinarily, meditate ordinarily, and continually, God is not in all his thoughts, God may be in some of his thoughts, but God is not in all his thoughts. But this meditation of God and the things of God, is the ordinary work of a good man, he delighteth in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate day and night. Meditation on God and the things of God is his ordinary work; So that thus now you see the difference, and thus you see the Doctrine cleared: 'Tis a sweet thing to a gracious soul to meditate on God and the things of God, meditation-work is sweet work to a gratious soul.—Sweet for it is Naturall,—Sweet, for it is suitable—Sweet, ⟨p. 132⟩for it is profitable.—Sweet, for it is satisfying —Sweet, for it is delightful: And, If these things be so;
What shall we say of those that never spent any time yet alone in meditating on God, and the things of G•d? Never spent a day, never spent half a day, never spent an hour in private meditating on God and the things of God. Shall we say, these are Godly? Why, in the time of the Old Testament the beasts were unclean that did not chew the Cud; in the New Testament it's made the property of the Highway Ground, that the seed falls upon it, and it is not covered over with meditation, and consideration.