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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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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.
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 exprest: 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.
Well but then, what shall we do? It is too manifest, God is in a great measure gone from us, and departed from us, what shall we do now that God may return again unto this Nation?
First, Be sure that you make your peace with Christ. Christ is this day offended, his Gospel and Institutions trampled upon. A Prophet will the Lord your God raise up among you, hear ye him; if not, he will not pardon you; that is, Christ. He that sins against the great Remedy, shall be judged without remedy: Christ is the great Remedy; It is a dangerous thing to sin against Christ. O, saith Christ, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered you, and you would not be gathered; your house is left unto you desolate. And in