A77360:980
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.
4ly. If your estate and condition be such, upon which the Lord will deliver for his Names sake, and with a Notwithstanding; then why should you not conclude that God will return again: Friends, There is a time when God will deliver his people, for his Names sake; and with a notwithstanding all their sins, and notwithstanding all his own displeasures: Nevertheless, he saved them for his Names sake, Psal. 106.— And when is that, that God will deliver a people for his Names-sake, and with a notwithstanding?— Look into the 44. Psal. and you shall see when. Look when a people do suffer for his Names-sake, then God will deliver for his Name sake: Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy Mercy sake. Why? at the 22. v. For thy sake we are killed all the day long, and accounted as Sheep for the slaughter: Therefore, Lord, arise for thy Name sake. For, for thy sake are we killed. When a people suffer for God's Names sake, then God will deliver for his Names sake, then God will deliver with a notwithstanding.— How is it with you now? You are in a suffering day, but are not all your sufferings for the Name of Christ? Be of good comfort then, though God may be departed, and your City destroyed, yet he is n•t quite gone, but will return again. But then,
4ly. If your estate and condition be such, upon which the Lord will deliver for his Names sake, and with a Notwithstanding; then why should you not conclude that God will return again: Friends, There is a time when God will deliver his people, for his Names sake; and with a notwithstanding all their sins, and notwithstanding all his own displeasures: Nevertheless, he saved them for his Names sake, Psal. 106.— And when is that, that God will deliver a people for his Names-sake, and with a n•twithstanding?— Look into the 44. Psal. and you shall see when. Look when a people do suffer for his Names-sake, then God will deliver for his Name sake: Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy Mercy sake. Why? at the 22. v. For thy sake we are killed all the day long, and accounted as Sheep for the slaughter: Therefore, Lord, arise for thy Name sake. For, for thy sake are we killed. When a people suffer for God's Names sake, then God will deliver for his Names sake, then God will deliver with a notwithstanding.— How is it with you now? You are in a suffering day, but are not all your sufferings for the Name of Christ? Be of good comfort then, though God may be departed, and your City destroyed, yet he is nt quite gone, but will return again. But then,