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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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2. If you desire that God may return again unto you, Then let us all return unto the Lord with all our hearts, Joel 2.12. Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: Who knoweth if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him? Who knows, if you will turn ⟨p. 472⟩unto him with all your heart, but he will return to you, and leave a blessing behind him?
But look into Hosea 6. Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up; after two days will he revive us, in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. God will return.
But look into Hosea 6. Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up; after two dayes will he revive us, in the third day he will raise us up, and we shal live in his sight. God will return.
Well, but what assurance have we of it? are we certain God will return? — Yes, vers. 3. His going forth is prepared as the morning. As sure as a Morning is after Night, so sure will God return: his going forth is prepared as the Morning; as certain he will return as the Morning doth.