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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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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 Matth. 22. you read, That after that great invitation to the Supper, those that were invited refused, They made light of it, went their ways: and the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them: But when the King heard thereof, he was wroth, and he sent forth his Armies, and destroyed those Murderers, and burnt up their City. It is a Gospel quarrel: And therefore I say, Is the Lord gone and departed from us? O make your peace with Christ, it is Christ that is offended: O make your peace with Christ, else never look the Father should return again. But then,
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 judg'd 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 Matth. 22. you read, That after that great invitation to the Supper, those that were invited refused, They made light of it, went their wayes: and the remnant took his servants, and intreated them spitefully, and slew them: But when the King heard thereof, he was wroth, and he sent forth his Armies, and destroyed those Murderers, and burnt up their City. It is a Gospel quarrel: And therefore I say, Is the Lord gone and departed from us? O make your peace with Christ, it is Christ that is offended: O make your peace with Christ, else never look the Father should return again. But then,