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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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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.
2. Go to God and beg of him that he would sanctifie, 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 profus• 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 unde• his sequestration, it will be full of evil; go then t• God, and desire him to sanctifie your devising, you• thinking, and your projecting Faculty.
3. Go to God, and beg of him that he would la• out drawing objects before you, that may draw o• your thoughts, and your meditations: 'Tis God th• must present such objects.