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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 9: Gods Return to the Soul or Nation. SERM. IX.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A man is never fit to look upon the troubles of this World, and the miseries thereof, till his heart be established in God by believing. This therefore he doth in the first place, by several Arguments of Comfort.
A man is never fit to look upon the troubles of this World, and the miseries thereof, till his heart be establisht in God by beleeving. This therefore he doth in the first place, by several Arguments of Comfort.
First drawn from their interest in God v. 1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all Generations: As if he should say, We are now in the Wilderness, and so no abiding place, well: Thou hast bin our dwelling place in all Generations.
Faith finds that in God which we want here below, and that's the way to true Comfort.
The Second is drawn from the eternity of Gods essence and being. v. 2. Before the Mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the World, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
The Second is drawn from the eternity of Gods essence and beeing. v. 2. Before the Mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the World, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.