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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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8. Lastly, If you would meditate on God, and the things of God, go then to God for this skill of meditation. Friends, There is an Art, and divine Skill of meditation, which none can teach but God alone: Would you have it, go then to God, and beg of God these things.
8. Lastly, If you would meditate on God, and the things of God, go then to God for this skill of meditation. Friends, There is an Art, and divine Skill of meditation, which none can teach but God alone: Would you have it, go then to God, and begg of God these things.
First, Beg of God that he would change your nature: For if your soil be not changed, nothing but weeds will grow still, not the Flowers of meditation, but the weeds of vain thoughts; go first to God to change your Nature, to change your Soil.
First, Begg of God that he would change your nature: For if your soyl be not changed, nothing but weeds will grow still, not the Flowers of meditation, but the weeds of vain thoughts; go first to God to change your Nature, to change your Soyl.
2. Go to God and beg of him that he would sanctify, and sequester your mind unto himself, that your whole mind may be under God's sequestration▪ Every man is as his mind is: A mans mind is a profuse thing, and it is as full of thoughts, as the Sun is full o• Beams. If God don't take it in, and bring it under his sequestration, it will be full of evil; go then t• God, and desire him to sanctify your devising, you• thinking, and your projecting Faculty.