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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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If you do read and not meditate, then you wil• want good affections.
If you do meditate, and not read or hear, you will want good Judgment, and be apt to fall into some ill Opinions.
If you do read, or hear, or meditate, and not pray, you will want the blessing of the Lord upon both: Read, or hear first; then meditate; and then pray upon both. I speak of settled meditation, and let one be proportioned unto another. There must be a proportion between the one and the other, in a settled meditation; and therefore if that you would meditate rightly, I say in all your meditations, begin with reading, go on with meditation, and end with prayer.
5. If you would have this work of Meditation carried on with profit and sweetness, join with your Meditation, the examination of your own souls, in case you meditate on God and Christ, think with your selves by way of examination, But have I an Interest in this? I have been now thinking and meditating on the excellencies of Christ, but have I an Interest in him? Come Oh my soul, thou hast been meditating on God, and on the excellencies of Christ, but hast thou any share, hast thou any Interest therein? Join examination with your Meditation, then it will be profitable, then it will be sweet; otherwise it is but Contemplation, or but a study; but join examination with your Meditation, so 'tis sweet, and so 'tis profitable.