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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.
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, Cant. 5. Once upon an account of his mere pleasure, Cant. 3.
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, Cant. 5. Once upon an account of his meer pleasure, Cant. 3.
As whom God will he shows mercy to, and whom he will he hardens: So whom God will he is present with, and whom he will he is absent from, He is the Sovereign Lord over all. But
As whom God will he shews mercy to, and whom he will he hardens: So whom God will he is present with, and whom he will he is absent from, He is the Sovereign Lord over all. But
Secondly, What if God will that his people should have a taste of hell in this life, that so they may be sensible of, and very thankful for their deliverance from hell, and the wrath to come. There are three things in hell — Torment of Body, — Horror of Conscience, — Loss of God.