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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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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.
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 halfe a day, never spent an hower 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 Cudd; 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.
What, Is it the property of a gracious soul to meditate on God, and doth he find so much sweetness in meditating on God and the things of God? and have I lived Twenty years, have I lived Thirty years, have I lived Forty years, and never spent an hour yet in private in meditation on God and the things of God, how can I think I am Godly?
What, Is it the property of a gratious soul to meditate on God, and doth he find so much sweetness in meditating on God and the things of God? and have I liv'd Twenty years, have I liv'd Thirty years, have I liv'd Fourty years, and never spent an hower yet in private in meditation on God and the things of God, how can I think I am Godly?