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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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3. As it is every days work, so it is that work that is consistent with every business, and with every condition. A Garment that will fit the back of every condition. What dunghill-condition, but this flower of Meditation may grow thereupon? In Judg. the 5th 'tis said there, v. 11. They that are delivered from the noise of Archers in the places of drawing water; There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord.—There, where? why in the places of drawing Water; When they are in the field, drawing water: And if that be a fit place be rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, certainly then it is a place fit for meditation: And if that the place of the Drawing Water, then the very place of scraping Trenchers, and sweeping the kennel may be a place fit for meditation? If that the place of drawing Water, be a place fit for rehearsing the Acts of the Lord; what place, what condition, what business, but Meditation may accompany it?
3. As it is every dayes work, so it is that work that is consistent with every business, and with every condition. A Garment that will fit the back of every condition. What dunghil-condition, but this flower of Meditation may grow thereupon? In Judg. the 5th 'tis said there, v. 11. They that are delivered from the noise of Archers in the places of drawing water; There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord.—There, where? why in the places of drawing Water; When they are in the field, drawing waer: And if that be a fit place be rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, certainly then it is a place fit for meditation: And if that the place of the Drawing Water, then the very place of scraping Trenchers, and sweeping the kennel may be a place fit for meditation? If that the place of drawing Water, be a place fit for rehearsing the Acts of the Lord; what place, what condition, what business, but Meditation may accompany it?
Possibly a man may be sick, and he may be kept from Books, or he may be kept from hearing; but yet he may meditate on God, and the things of God.