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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.
Obs. When God is in any measure departed from his people, it is their great desire, that God would return unto them, and repent him concerning his Servants. — For the clearing and prosecuting of which,
First, I shall labour to show you, that God doth sometimes forsake, desert, and depart from his own people for a time.
First, I shall labour to shew you, that God doth sometimes forsake, desert, and depart from his own people for a time.
2. That they are very sensible of such departures, and think it long.
3. That then, in the time of those departures, their great desire is that God would return, and