Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

4 Sprinkle thy Soul with the blood of Jesus Christ. ¹Christ is our peace, as the Apostle calls him; neither canst thou (by all that ⟨p. 68⟩thou art able to do) make thy peace with God, but only th•ugh faith in his blood.² When the destroying Angel saw the blood of the Lamb sprinkled on the Posts of any Door, he passed by that House, and they within were safe; so that Soul which is sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ, is so safe from the destroying Angel of God, that he shall not do it hurt; for death is an advantage to that Soul which is sprinkled with the blood of Christ, being the door of Life, ³and a gate to Heaven, as Cyprian calls it. Though the blood of Christ be the means of our peace and reconciliation with God, yet unless that blood be sprinkled on thy Soul, thou canst find little peace there; and therefore the Apostle Peter speaks not only of the blood of Christ,⁴ but of the sprinkling of the blood of Christ. It is not enough that Christ hath shed his blood, but there must be besides the shedding of it, the sprinkling of it. Christs blood was shed upon the Cross, yet all men are not reconciled unto God thereby. And what is the reason? Surely because that blood is not sprinkled upon their souls; and peace and reconciliation with God must be had, not only from Christs blood poured out, but from his blood sprinkled.

4 Sprinkle thy Soul with the blood of Iesus Christ. ¹Christ is our peace, as the Apostle calls him; neither canst thou (by all that ⟨p. 68⟩thou art able to doe) make thy peace with God, but only th•ugh faith in his blood.²