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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.
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 Suppose that God be withdrawn from my soul in particular, I am this day under a spiritual desertion, how shall I know that God will return again to me.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?
Indeed it is a very hard thing to bear the departures of God; But yet if I did know that God would return again, I should be comforted; How therefore shall I know, both in reference to my own soul in particular, and in reference to the Nation, that God will return again?
Here are two cases, and I shall speak all along to both.
If your Question do relate unto your own particular case and soul. I Answer thus;