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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 8: The Work and Way of Meditation. SERM. VIII.
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4. Give you some Rules and Directions, how this work of Meditation should be carried on with sweetness and profit, in a right manner.
And then draw forth some Arguments, or Motives to press you all hereunto.
I. First, It is our work and duty, to meditate on God, and the things of God: Will you instance according to our Explication at the first.
Will you instance in the Nature, Titles, and Attributes of God? Why, it is our work and duty so to meditate on God: For wicked men are blamed, that God is not in all their thoughts; If they be blamed for this, that God is not in all their thoughts, then surely God is to be in all our thoughts.
Good and holy men are commended, and rewarded for this: They that feared the Lord, spake often one to another, and a book of Remembrance was written for them that feared the Lord, and that Thought on his Name. They are commended,— and they are rewarded. In the day when God makes up his Jewels, they shall be found among them,