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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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Inward, Psal. 143. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for saith he, v. 4. My spirit is overwhelmed within me, my heart within me is desolate: What then?— I remember the days of old, I meditate on all thy works: Here lies the relief against spiritual fears, and overwhelmings of soul, even to meditate on God as one ought to do, in a right manner: I am overwhelmed, but I'll meditate on all thy works, and muse on the work of thy hands.
Inward, Psal. 143. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for saith he, v. 4. My spirit is overwhelmed within me, my heart within me is desolate: What then?— I remember the dayes of old, I meditate on all thy works: Here lies the relief against spiritual fears, and overwhelmings of soul, even to meditate on God as one ought to do, in a right manner: I am overwhelmed, but I'le meditate on all thy works, and muse on the work of thy hands.
As for the Outward afflictions, Psal. 119. the place cited before, v. 23. Princes also did sit and speak against me, but thy Servant did meditate in thy Statutes. Reproach from an ordinary man, is affliction enough; but for Kings and Princes, to speak against one, this is a great matter. What relief then? But thy servant did meditate on thy Statutes. So that by this, you have a constant relief against both outward, and inward afflictions. And,
10. Thereby also you shall be freed from that unkindness, that God will take at your hands, if you don't meditate on him, and the things of God. Friends, If you don't meditate on God, and the things of God, God will take it very unkindly at your hands: What man that is abroad beyond Sea, hearing that his wife frolics it at home, and never thinks on him, will not take it unkindly? We are absent now from God, and to frolic and be vain, and go up and down, and have no thoughts on God, no meditation on God; How unkindly must God take this at our hands? 'Tis a sleight, If a man speak unto you, and you don't think of what he speaks, 'tis a sleight to him: So to read what God saith, or see what God doth, and not think on't, not to meditate on it; what is this but a sleight unto God?