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Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...Of communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. §. 11 They Eye the Blood of Christ, as the Blood of Sprinkling. Coming to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant, they come to ⟨p. 235⟩the Blood of Sprinkling Heb. 12. 24. The eying of the blood of 1Christ as shed, will not of its self take away Pollution. There is not only [Greek or Hebrew], a shedding of Blood, without which, there is no Remission, Heb. 9. 22. but there is also [Greek or Hebrew] a sprinkling of blood, without which there is no actual purification. This the Apostle largely describes: Heb. 9. When Moses (saith he) had spoken every precept to the People according to the Law, he took the blood of Calves and of Goats, with water, and scarlet wool, & Hyssop, & sprinkled both the book and all the People, saying, this is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you: More over, he sprinkled with blood, both the Tabernacle, & all the Vessels of the Ministry; and almost all things are by the Law purged with blood: It was therefore necessary that the patterns of the things in the Heavens, should be purified with these, but the Heavenly things themselves, with better Sacrifices then these v. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. He had formerly compared the Blood of Christ, to the blood of Sacrifices as offered in respect of the impetration and the Purchase it made; now he doth it unto that blood as sprinkled, in respect of its Application unto purification and holiness. And he tells us how this sprinkling was performed, it was by dipping Hyssop in the blood of the Sacrifice, and so dashing it out upon the things and persons to be purified. As the Institution also was with the Paschal Lamb: Exod. 12. 12. Hence David in a sense of the pollution of sin prays, that he may be purged with Hyssop: Ps. 51. 7. For that this peculiarly respected the Uncleanness and Defilement of sin, is evident, because there is no mention made in the Institution of any Sacrifice, (after that of the Lamb before mentioned,) of sprinkling blood with Hyssop, but only in those which respected purification of uncleanness. As in the case of Leprosy,