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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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3. You may know it by the Providential Pledges, that the Lord sends you. God was very much displeased with Jonah; you know, he threw him over-board into the Sea; but then he appointed a Whale to receive him, to give him entertainment: To provide a Chamber of Preservation, even in the Belly of destruction. What did this signify? It signified thus much, that God would deliver him afterwards; this Providence, was a Pledge for after-deliverance. So David was hunted in the Wilderness by Sau•, but in the Wilderness, God gave Saul into his hand? What did that signify? That present deliverance, did signify to David, an after-deliverance. Now though God be ⟨p. 478⟩gone, and greatly departed from us here: Have you not many Providential Pledges of his Love? What think you of the house, that should have been blown up with fire lately? What doth it signify, but thus much, That God doth mind to restrain the remnant of their rage: How many Pledges, Providential pledges, have we had of Gods return; therefore let us say: Yet God will return again. But,
3. You may know it by the Providential Pledges, that the Lord sends you. God was very much displeased with Jonah; you know, he threw him over-board into the Sea; but then he appointed a Whale to receive him, to give him entertainment: To provide a Chamber of Preservation, even in the Belly of destruction. What did this signifie? It signified thus much, that God would deliver him afterwards; this Providence, was a Pledg for after-deliverance. So David was hunted in the Wilderness by Sau•, but in the Wilderness, God gave Saul into his hand? What did that signifie? That present deliverance, did signifie to David, an after-deliverance. Now though God be ⟨p. 478⟩gone, and greatly departed from us here: Have you not many Providential Pledges of his Love? What think you of the house, that should have been blown up with fire lately? What doth it signifie, but thus much, That God doth mind to restrain the remnant of their rage: How many Pledges, Providential pledges, have we had of Gods return; therefore let us say: Yet God will return again. But,