A77360:95
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
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.
8. The more your heart is drawn out to the ver• Person of Christ, the more will your love continue That's perpetual that hath a perpetuating Cause: Th• Personal Excellency of Christ is a perpetual Caus• of love, but the benefit that doth come from Christ […] not so. Let the benefit be never so great, if your lov• be founded upon the benefit that doth come fro• Christ, as the benefit dies, your love will die; but your love be founded upon the very Person of Chris• and drawn out to the Person of Christ, then will yo• love continue and never die.
8. The more your heart is drawn out to the ver• Person of Christ, the more will your love continue That's perpetuall that hath a perpetuating Cause: Th• Personall Excellency of Christ is a perpetuall Caus• of love, but the benefit that doth come from Christ 〈…〉 not so. Let the benefit be never so great, if your lov• be founded upon the benefit that doth come fro• Christ, as the benefit dies, your love will die; but your love be founded upon the very Person of Chris• and drawn out to the Person of Christ, then will yo• love continue and never die.
9. Lastly, as to this: If your heart be drawn o• in love to the very Person of Christ, to Christ himself, then you have gained the heart of God the Father f ever. Look into