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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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2. Whether God doth at any time repent, or will at any time repent.
3. How it may appear that when God returns unto his people, that then he will repent him concerning his Servants. And,
4. How should we know in the Day and time of Gods departure from us, that God will again return unto us.
1. As for the first: If you ask what it is for God to repent.
1. As for the first: If you aske what it is for God to repent.
I Answer. It is to change the dispensation of his anger. God don't repent by the changing of his affection, but he repents by the changing of his dispensation. As when a man is writing, and he blots out what he hath written, he repents that he had wrote such a thing; So when God is writing hard things against his people in a way of dispensation, and he shall blot out that dispensation, then God is said to repent: So it repented the Lord that he had made man, in the 6. of Gen.