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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.
3. But then Thirdly, how may it appear that when the Lord doth return unto his people, that then he will repent him concerning his Servants.
Why that appears by the thing it self. If a man say he will go from such a Town and never return again, and then do return, he doth repent him concerning the thing, by his return: And so concerning God. In the 18th Jer. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation, and concerning a Kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it, If that Nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. Well,
Why that appears by the thing it self. If a man say he will go from such a Town and never return again, and then do return, he doth repent him concerning the thing, by his return: And so concerning God. In the 18th Jer. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation, and concerning a Kingdom, to pluck up, and to pul down, and to destroy it, If that Nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. Well,
4. But then 4thly. How shall we know in case God be absent, or God be departed, how shall we be able in the time of Gods absence, or departure, to know that God will return again. Suppose that God be withdrawn from my soul in particular, I am this day under a spiritual desertion, how shall I know that God will return again to me. Or suppose that God have forsaken, and departed much from the Nation, how shall we know whether God will return again or no?