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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.
Friends, Truly it is not an easy thing to bring God back again, when he is in a way of displeasure towards a people: The Lord was angry, and sorely displeased with Jonah: The Mariners prayed, Jonah confessed his sin, and yet the storm ceased not, yet God goes on. I say, 'tis not an easy thing to bring God back to a Nation, when he is once in a way of displeasure against a people.
Friends, Truly it is not an easie thing to bring God back again, when he is in a way of displeasure towards a people: The Lord was angry, and sorely displeased with Jonah: The Mariners prayed, Jonah confest his sin, and yet the storm ceased not, yet God goes on. I say, 'tis not an easie thing to bring God back to a Nation, when he is once in a way of displeasure against a people.
And some times the Lord will never return unto a people again: The case of the Gadarenes in the matter of their Hogs: The whole City came unto Christ, and besought him to be gone. And away he went, and we don't read that ever he came there again.
And some times the Lord will never return unto a people again: The case of the Gaderens in the matter of their Hogs: The whole City came unto Christ, and besought him to be gone. And away he went, and we don't read that ever he came there again.
Sometimes he will return again, but with reserves of after-Judgments: In Exod. 32. Moses prayed, and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people, v. 14. But, saith he, v. 34. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. Nevertheless: For all I thus repent me, and for all I do thus return unto them; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them: Sometimes I say, he doth return with reserves of after-Judgments, yet if you look into the 3d. of Deut. the thing is expressed: The Lord will judge his people, and repent himself for his Servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left.