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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.
By the horror of Conscience that we meet withal, we may think of the horror of Conscience there.
By the horror of Conscience that we meet withall, we may think of the horror of Conscience there.
And by Gods withdrawing, and Gods departing from us here, we may think of the loss of God for ever there.
And by Gods withdrawing, and Gods departing from us here, we may think of the losse of God for ever there.
These things are not in perfection here: In heaven there is nothing but the presence of God, and all the comforts there flow from that Fountain.— In hell there's nothing but the absence of God, and all the ⟨p. 466⟩miseries there flow from that Fountain.— This life lies between both. And what if God will (that we may be sensible of the great deliverance from the wrath to come) give us a taste of hell, by his withdrawings and by his departings from us for a season.
These things are not in perfection here: In heaven there is nothing but the presence of God, and all the comforts there flow from that Fountain.— In hell there's nothing but the absence of God, and all the ⟨p. 466⟩miseries there flow from that Fountain.— This life lyes between both. And what if God will (that we may be sensible of the great deliverance from the wrath to come) give us a taste of hell, by his withdrawings and by his departings from us for a season.