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A77360	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.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing B4449A; ESTC R225773	165,221	279

Nation but so long as he hath any Agents among you he is not quite gone And 3. If ever God begins to return to us again be thankful for the beginnings of his return He that is thankful for little shall have much and he that is thankful for the beginnings of return shall have a whole return Thus do then and who knows but that the Lord may yet return and leave a blessing behind him That he may do so let us now pray and say with the Psalmist Return O Lord how long and let it repent thee concerning thy Servants Preventing Mercy SERMON X. Psalm 21.3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not with-holden the request of his lips Selah For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse THis Psalm is a Psalm of Thanksgiving wherein the Psalmist doth profess that he will joy in the Lord vers 1. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce Why so because that the Lord had heard and granted his Petition Thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips vers 2. yea more then so Thou hast given him his hearts desire vers 2. yea more then so thou hast given him more then he asked for he asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of dayes for ever and ever vers 4. Yet more then so thou hast not onely given him his hearts desire an answer to his Prayer and more then he prayed for but thou hast prevented him with the blessings of goodness As if he should say Lord I never asked a Kingdome I never thought of a Kingdome but thou hast prevented me with the blessings of thy goodness and thou hast set a Crown of pure Gold on my head blessings of goodness in the Hebrew is put for good blessings wherewith the Lord did anticipate the Psalmist for thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness in the consideration of which preventing Love and Grace his heart was much warmed and affected From whence then I take up this Note or Doctrine Doct. That it is a sweet thing and worthy of all our thankful acknowledgements to be prevented with the blessings of Gods goodness or Gods good blessings Preventing mercy is sweet mercy soul-refreshing mercy which a thankful gracious heart doth well observe and in the observation thereof is much refreshed therewithall For the opening and prosecution of which Argument first I shall labour to shew that it is no new thing for God to walk in the way of preventing mercy with the Children of Men. Secondly How and in what respects God will prevent us with his mercies or his blessings Thirdly What those choise blessings are wherewith God will prevent the Children of Men. Fourthly Why God will carry on the work of his mercy in a way of preventing Love Fifthly What there is in this preventing Love that should be so sweet and soul-refreshing to a thankful gracious heart And Sixthly In case that God hath prevented any of us with his love or mercy what is our duty that doth flow from thence 1. It is no new thing for God to walk in a way of preventing love and mercy with the Children of Men Thus he hath alwayes dealt doth deal and will deal so thus he hath alwayes dealt so with the World so with the Nations of the World so with great Towns and Places so with Families and so with particular Souls 1. As for the World Did not God first come with his mercy to the World before the World made after it God so loved the World that he gave his onely begotten Son But how did he give this gift Did we beg it first did we seek it first or did he first prevent us with it When Adam and all the World in Adam had sinned fallen did Adam and the World first go to God for Christ or for the promise of Christ or did God first give out the promise of Christ before Adam or the World sought it The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head God first gave out this promise of Christ before Adam or the World sought it Thus in regard of the World 2. And as he hath dealt thus with the World in regard of preventing mercy so with the Nations of the World with the Nation of the Jews so in the 16 of Ezek. When thou layedst in thy blood and no eye pittied thee I passed by thee and said unto thee live So when the Nation of the Jews shall yet be converted again He is found of those that seek him not it is spoken of the calling of the Jews And as for the Nations of the Gentiles sayes our Saviour Christ to his Disciples go teach all Nations Did the Nations of the Gentiles come to Christ and say Lord the Nation of the Jews have rejected thee now then let the Gospel come to us and we will receive it No but sayes our Saviour Christ Go teach all Nations whatever they be Rich or Poor High or Low whatever they be Go teach all Nations and I will be with you for their Conversion for their Salvation to the end of the World Thus in regard of Nations 3. So also in regard of Towns great Towns Places Corporations What worse Town then that of Capernaum which afterward was exalted to Heaven But did Capernaum first come to Christ or did Christ first go to Capernaum Christ first went to them Mat. 4. Ye read of several Towns in the Acts of the Apostles that did receive the Gospel by the hands of the Apostles Iconium Derbe Lystra but did these Towns first seek to the Apostles and say Pray come and Preach Christ to us or did the Apostles first go to them The Apostles first went with Commission from God to them Thus in regard of Towns 4. And as God dealt thus with Towns preventing Towns and Corporations with the means of Grace when they never thought on it so in regard of Familes Who doth not know how God by his mercy did prevent the Family of the Jaylor converting that Family by his preventing Love Who doth not know how God dealt by Zacheus and his Family Zacheus got up the tree may be in curiosity among the multitude to see Christ go by but Christ seeing him invites himself to his house Come down Zacheus for to day I must abide at thy house Did Zacheus first invite Christ or did Christ first invite himself Christ first invited himself Thus in regard of Families 5. And as for particular souls you know how it was with Mathew the Publican sitting at the receit of Custome Come and follow me says Christ preventing of him And you know how it was with Paul I was a Blasphemer and I was a Persecutor but I obtained Mercy How so Did he seek it first No sayes he I went breathing out threatnings against the people of God and God met me And unhorsed me

in Heaven and Earth are reconciled Col. 1.20 6. Thereby are your souls justified and your sins pardoned In whom we have Redemption through his bloud The forgiveness of our sins Ephes 1. 7. Thereby are you washed and cleansed and sanctified The blood of Jesus cleanseth from all iniquity 1 Iohn 1. 8. Thereby is your great adversary Satan routed and overcome and spoyled Rev. 12. They overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb. 9. Thereby Christ is made welcome by his Father when he comes into Heaven in your name to intercede for you In the times of the Old Testament the high Priest went into the Holy of holiest and carried bloud and sprinkled the Mercy-Seat seven times But the high Priest did not sit down Now in the 10. of Heb. 11. it 's said And every high Priest standeth dayly ministring and offering often times the same sacrifices which can never take away sins But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down at the right Hand of God the Father The high Priest did not then sit down but now when Christ comes into Heaven with your names upon his Heart to sprinkle the Mercy-Seat with his bloud Come my Son saith the Father sit down and welcome upon this account 10. And thereby also have you entrance into the Holy of holiest as in the 10th of the Heb. 11. And if indeed you be sprinkled with this bloud of sprinkling then are you at one with the Mercy-Seat 'T is the same blood that 's sprinkled upon the Mercy-Seat in Heaven and that 's sprinkled upon your souls here on Earth The same bloud in the time of the Old Testament that was sprinkled upon the people was sprinkled upon the Altar and the Mercy-seat so the same bloud that 's now in Heaven sprinkled upon the Mercy-seat is sprinkled upon your hearts 12. If you are sprinkled with this bloud of sprinkling then all the Promises are yours for all the Promises are Yea and Amen in Christ And if Christs bloud be sprinkled on you and applied to you then may you apply the Promises to your selves 13. And if indeed you be sprinkled with this bloud of sprinkling then are all things clean unto you for as the bloud of sprinkling is sprinkled upon your souls so are all your Injoyments be sprinkled with it 14. And if you be indeed sprinkled with the bloud of Jesus then may you go away and say Now are all the blessings of the Covenant mine The day that you are sprinkled with the bloud of Iesus you may say now know I that my sins are pardoned Mercy is mine and Pardon is mine and Adoption is mine As when the Psalmist had a sight of God he cried out and said Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine So the day that you have this sight of God in being sprinkled with the bloud of Iesus you may cry out and say Not Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine But Pardon is mine and Adoption is mine and Heaven is mine and God is mine for ever Oh! Who would not labour to get his soul sprinkled now with the bloud of sprinkling 5. You will say in the fifth and last place 'T is a great priviledge to be sprinkled with the bloud of sprinkling We grant it But what shall we do that even we may get our souls sprinkled with the bloud of Iesus the bloud of sprinkling First of all you must know That there is a two-fold sprinkling with the bloud of Sprinkling There is an Initial sprinkling and a Renewed sprinkling As there is an Initial Repentance and a Renewed Repentance so there is an Initial Sprinkling and a Renewed Sprinkling An Initial sprinkling and that 's a mans first Conversion when he is justified according to that in the 1 Cor. 6.11 Such were some of you but you are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Here 's the Initial sprinkling The Renewed sprinkling is upon a two-fold account 1. Upon the account of some great sin committed and 2. Upon the account of some special duty to be performed A fresh sprinkling there must be upon some great sin committed So in the 51 Psalm saith David Wash me throughly from mine iniquity He had sin'd a great sin but his sin was pardoned Psal 51. Title A Psal● of David when Nathan the Prophet came unto him that was after Nathan came to him And what di● Nathan say he told him his sin was pardoned yet saith David v. 7. Purge me with Hysop I must have a fresh sprinkling after some great sin committed there must be a fresh sprinkling with the blood of Jesus And upon duty to be performed especially some great duty to be performed there must also be a fresh sprinkling In the 10th Heb. 22. Paul saith Let us draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water why our bodies washed with pure water It relates to the washings in the Old Testament when the Priests were to come to offer a sacrifice there was a Laver and they were then to wash themselves so saith the Apostle let us draw neer to God having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water because upon a new address to God a fresh sprinkling with the blood of Jesus is to be had 'T is not enough to have an old sprinkling with the blood of Jesus but upon all our approaches to God especially after some great sin committed or some special duty to be performed we must come and get a fresh sprinkling with the blood of Jesus 2. You must know also that though you have bin very great sinners yet you are not uncapable of this sprinkling with the blood of Jesus The Apostle saith in that place of the Corinthians Such were some of you what such v. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor Abusers of themselves with man-kind nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God And such were some of you but ye are washed how why ye are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God which sprinkles which applies the blood of Christ So then though ye have bin great sinners yet you are not uncapable of being sprinkled with this blood of sprinkling 3. You must know this also that there is nothing on this side the blood of Jesus this blood of sprinkling that can cleanse you If any thing should bid for our cleansing methinks it should be our sufferings and persecutions for the name of God but look into the 7th Rev. 14th it's said These are they which came out of great Tribulations and have washed their Robes and made them white in the