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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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?
If this Doctrine be true, that a gracious holy man finds a sweetness in meditating on God, and meditation work is sweet work to a gracious soul, then, Friends, why should you not all labour to be found here, in this work of meditation. I fear we are strangers hereunto: many come and hear Sermons, and write Sermons one time after another, and afterwards they stand up upon dusty shelves, and are never meditated on: But is this true that a gracious man finds so much sweetness in the work of meditation, and that it is so profitable a work? why should we not all labour to be found herein?
You will say then unto me, Meditation is a sweet work we confess, and very profitable; but what should I do that I may be able to carry on this work of ⟨p. 433⟩meditation with sweetness? I have found it hard some times, and after I have begun it I threw it off. Sometimes I have thought that the work of meditation is Incumbent only upon Preachers, but I see it is sweet, and profitable and good for every one. What shall I do then that I may be able to carry on this work of meditation with sweetness?