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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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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.
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 blotts 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 blott out that dispensation, then God is said to repent: So it repented the Lord that he had made man, in the 6. of Gen.
2. Secondly, If you ask, Whether God doth, or will at any time repent.
I Answer. yes; Expressly, in the 32 Exod. 14. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. 'Tis a direct Answer of prayer to the very words. At the 12. v. Moses prays; Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. And at the 14. v. The Lord repented of the •v•l which he thought to do unto his people. God doth and will some times repent.