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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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And converse with those that are serious. Be serious, and you will be more fit for Meditation: That's the Second.
3. If you would indeed meditate on God and the things of God, labour more and more for a Fixed Spirit: Fixation of Spirit is a great friend to meditation. An unsettled, an unfixed soul, cannot meditate: Fix therefore first. And there are many things that may fix your Spirits.
The great and weighty Judgments of God that are upon us, may help to fix us, and hang lead upon our heels.
In case you are to come to Meditation, or any other Work, come free, and don't leave any business standing at the Door: for a hundred to one, but your hearts will step out unto it, at the time of your Work, whether Meditation, or Prayer, or any thing else. Therefore come free unto every Duty, if you would be fixed.
In case you are to come to Meditation, or any other Work, come free, and don't leave any businesse standing at the Door: for a hundred to one, but your hearts will step out unto it, at the time of your Work, whether Meditation, or Prayer, or any thing else. Therefore come free unto every Duty, if you would be fixed.