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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. Hereby, even by this work of Meditation, you shall get into the Secrets of divine things. There is a Secret and a Mystery in ever Trade: A man don't know the Trade, till he knows the Secret and the Mystery of it: It's said, The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. Knowledge brings us to the door of Truth: But Meditation hath us into the House, and into all the Rooms thereof: Thereby (I say) you shall get into the Inwards, and the Secrets of the things of God.
3. Thereby also you shall suck out the sweetness of all those divine and precious things that you know. As a man by musing on his Sins, sucks out the sweetness thereof; so by meditating on the things of God, you suck out the sweetness of the things of God into your own souls.
3. Thereby also you shall suck out the sweetnesse of all those divine and precious things that you know. As a man by musing on his Sins, sucks out the sweetness thereof; so by meditating on the things of God, you suck out the sweetness of the things of God into your own souls.
4. By this work of Meditation, you shall have a Testimony in your own Souls, that you are truly godly. Every man is what he is most in private. A good mans work lies most under-ground, lies most out of sight. In the time of Moses, the beasts were clean that chewed the Cud, and unclean that did not chew the Cud. In the time of David, 'tis made the Description of a godly man, He delighteth in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate. Hereby then, you shall have a testimony in your own hearts, that you are truly godly. But you shall not only have a testimony that you are truly godly, but practise it, and thereby you shall be very godly: for the more constant you are in godliness, the more godly you are. By the work of Meditation, you will be constant in the work of Godliness— The more extensive your godliness