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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 Secondly, If you would meditate on God in •eference to his Word: Then look upon all the Word of God, as your Fathers Letter, and your own evidence. If a Child be beyond Sea, and a Letter •ome from the Father, the Child reads it; he reads […], again and again, and thinks on it: Another, that […] a stranger to the Letter, though he see it, he don't •ead it so often over, nor meditate so often on't, •ut the Son doth. Why? 'tis my Fathers Letter, •ith he, and so Isle read it, and meditate on't, and •ink on't. So some men do not look upon the Scriptures as their Fathers Letters sent from Heaven to ⟨p. 436⟩them: But those that are good, they look upon all the Chapters there as their Fathers Letters; and I will read it over, for it's my Fathers Letter, and I will think on't much, for 'tis my Fathers Letter. Thus then, Look upon the Word as your Fathers Letter.
But Secondly, If you would meditate on God in •eference to his Word: Then look upon all the Word of God, as your Fathers Letter, and your own •vidence. If a Child be beyond Sea, and a Letter •ome from the Father, the Child reads it; he reads 〈…〉, again and again, and thinks on it: Another, that 〈…〉 a stranger to the Letter, though he see it, he don't •ead it so often over, nor meditate so often on't, •ut the Son doth. Why? 'tis my Fathers Letter, •ith he, and so Ile read it, and meditate on't, and •ink on't. So some men do not look upon the Scrip•res as their Fathers Letters sent from Heaven to ⟨p. 436⟩