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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
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4. The more a man doth love the Person of Christ, the more he will be speaking and thinking of him: Love is busied and exercised in thoughtfulness about the person loved; and in speech. If a man love a Person or Thing, he will be thinking much on't, and speaking much on't. But now by our experience, cannot we go a whole day together, and have no thought of Christ? Don't we sit down at our meals frequently, and not one word of Christ? Good Conference, where art thou? Good and holy Conference, where art? Come to Professors Tables, one Dish after another, one Cup of Wine after another, but nothing of Christ. It's gone, it's gone: what's the reason, but because we are wanting in our love to the Person of Christ? Certainly, ⟨p. 15⟩if we were not wanting in our love to the Person of Christ, we would be thinking more of him, and speaking more of him.
4. The more a man doth love the Person of Christ, the more he will be speaking and thinking of him: Love is busied and exercised in thoughtfulnesse about the person loved; and in speech. If a man love a Person or Thing, he will be thinking much on't, and speaking much on't. But now by our experience, cannot we go a whole day together, and have no thought of Christ? Don't we sit down at our meals frequently, and not one word of Christ? Good Conference, where art thou? Good and holy Conference, where art? Come to Professors Tables, one Dish after another, one Cup of Wine after another, but nothing of Christ. It's gone, it's gone: what's the reason, but because we are wanting in our love to the Person of Christ? Certainly, ⟨p. 15⟩if we were not wanting in our love to the Person of Christ, we would be thinking more of him, and speaking more of him.
5. The more we love the Person of Christ, the more we shall desire to be dissolved, that we may be with him in the enjoyments of himself, and those heavenly embracements. I desire to be dissolved, (saith S. Paul) why? and to be with Christ, to have the Person of Christ: But how many good people are there that cannot desire to be dissolved; —why? because there is a want in their love to the Person of Christ-Possibly then you see, by all these things, 'tis possible that a good man, Christ's own and best Disciples, may be wanting in their love to the Person of Christ. But