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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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That I shall speak to, more largely: Only for the present give me leave to say some thing to it by way of premises; I'll only speak to Four Cases, and so conclude this Exercise.
That I shall speak to, more largely: Only for the present give me leave to say some thing to it by way of premises; I'le onely speak to Four Cases, and so conclude this Exercise.
Would you meditate on God and the things of God with sweetness? First, In case that you would meditate on the Nature, and Attributes of God, be sure that you divide your thoughts, for variety is most refreshing: All the Attributes of God are worthy of our thoughts; do not therefore stand poring on one excellency, or upon one Attribute; but when you are most fearful, put your thoughts upon that in God which is most cheerful: When you are most cheerful, put your thoughts upon that in God, which is most dread-full: ever more divide your thoughts, if you be to meditate on God, and the Name and Nature and Attributes of God.
Would you meditate on God and the things of God with sweetness? First, In case that you would meditate on the Nature, and Attributes of God, be sure that you divide your thoughts, for variety is most refreshing: All the Attributes of God are worthy of our thoughts; do not therefore stand poring on one excellencie, or upon one Attribute; but when you are most fearfull, put your thoughts upon that in God which is most cheerfull: When you are most cheerful, put your thoughts upon that in God, which is most dread-ful: ever more divide your thoughts, if you be to meditate on God, and the Name and Nature and Attributes of God.
And Secondly, be sure of this, That you meditate, not in a way of Reason only, when you come to meditate on God, but in a way of Faith. For, Who can give the Reason of the Trinity in Unity, and the Unity in Trinity? How can men know and understand this, that the Second Person should be begotten of the Father from all Eternity, and yet be co-equal with the Father: here Reason halts. Saith one truly, Dispute not with Gd, lest you e confounded; Dispute not with Satan, lest yu be overcome. And I say, If you would not fail and miscarry in your work of Meditation, be sure that when you are to meditate on God,