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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.
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;
You may know it by your Relations. If you be in Covenant with God; God will return again to you though now he be absent; Though he afflict you with Rods, his loving kindness will he not take away, nor suffer his faithfulness to fail. Will a Father or Mother leave their Child? no; I am sure God will not. Joseph was under a great displeasure with his Brethren, yet notwithstanding at the last he could hold no longer, but he bursts out, and saith, I am your Brother Joseph: And so though you be under some great displeasure from Christ, yet there is a time when Christ will break forth and say unto you, I am yous Brother Jesus. And I say, if you be in Covenant with God, you may conclude it, for so doth the Psalmist, Psal. 42. ult. I shall yet praise him. My soul, thou art cast down and disquieted, but be quieted, for I shall yet praise him.—Why, he is the health of my Countenance, and my God. You may know it then by your Relations. But