A77360:581
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
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.
4. What are the privileges of coming to this Blood of sprinkling, and of being sprinkled with this Blood of Sprinkling. And then,
4. What are the priviledges of coming to this Blood of sprinkling, and of being sprinkled with this Blood of Sprinkling. And then,
5. What we must do that we may get our hearts sprinkled with this Blood of Sprinkling.
First, If you ask, what this Blood of Sprinkling is.
I answer, That it is no other than the blood of Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant — called the Blood of Sprinkling; Because it was, and is, the thing specified by all the Sprinklings of Water and Blood, in the Old Testament. In the days of the Old Testament, it was their way and manner then, to mix water and blood together, and to sprinkle it upon Persons and Things: which was a Pattern and Type of this Blood of Jesus; as you read from the 13. verse, unto the 24. of the 9. of the Heb.— When our Lord and Saviour Christ died upon the Cross, there came water and blood out of his side, saith John. And if you look into the 1 of