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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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7. If you would meditate on God and the things of God, Take heed that your hearts and your hands, be not too full of the world, and the employments thereof. The more full your hand is of worldly employments, the more you will think thereon, and the more you think thereon, the less you will think of G•d and the things of God. And what is the reason that many meditate and think so little of God and the things of God, but because their hearts are so full of the World, Where their treasure is, there will their hearts b•.
7. If you would meditate on God and the things of God, Take heed that your hearts and your hands, be not too full of the world, and the employments thereof. The more full your hand is of worldly imployments, the more you will think thereon, and the more you think thereon, the less you will think of G•d and the things of God. And what is the reason that many meditate and think so little of God and the things of God, but because their hearts are so full of the World, Where their treasure is, there will their hearts b•.
O saith one, I would think on God, and I would meditate on God with all my heart, but meditation-work is a work of time, it will cost time, and I have no time; my hands are so full of business, and so full of employment, I have no time for this work; Meditation is not a transient Thought, but it is a work of time, and will ask time, and I have no time. Mark therefore what David saith in the 119. Psalm. Lord incline my heart unto thy testimonies, ⟨p. 450⟩how so? Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity: The way to have ones heart inclined to the Testimonies of God, is to turn away ones eyes from these outward vanities. Would you therefore meditate on God, and the things of God, then take heed that your hearts, and your hands, be not too full of the world, and the employments thereof.