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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.
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4. That when God doth return unto his people, then he doth repent him concerning his Servants; and
5. What we should do in case God should be in any measure departed from us, that he may return again unto us.
First, As for the first: God doth sometimes desert, and forsake, and depart from his people for a ⟨p. 465⟩time. Not in regard of their Union, so he never departs; But in regard of Communion, and manifestation, so sometimes he doth: Though nothing is hid from the heat of this Sun, yet our souls may be hid from the light of this Sun: God doth sometimes depart from his own people.
For first, He is the Sovereign Lord over all: And what if God will, to make his power and sovereignty known among his own people, sometimes withdraw, forsake, and depart from them. Two times you read in the Book of the Canticles, that Christ withdraws from the Spouse: Once upon occasion of her sin, and security; And then she meets with blows,