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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
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.
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 John, c. 5. you shall see that John, his beloved Disciple, insists much upon it, at the 6. v. This is he that came by Water and Blood, even Jesus Christ; not by Water only, but by Water and Blood. Again, This is he, even Jesus Christ, that came by water and blood: which blood of Sprinkling, is the blood of Jesus, saith Peter expressly, in his 1 Epist. 1.2. Elect according to the foreknowledge •f God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: So that plainly then, and briefly, this B•ood of Sprinkling, is the blood of Jesus. Called the Blood of Sprinkling, in reference unto those Types and Ceremonies of sprinkling blood, in the time of the Old Testament.
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 Sprinkings of Water and Blood, in the Old Testament. In the dayes 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 John, c. 5. you shall see that John, his beloved Disciple, insists much upon it, at the 6. v. This is he that came by Water and Blood, even Jesus Christ; not by Water onely, but by Water and Blood. Again, This is he, even Jesus Christ, that came by water and blood: which blood of Sprinkling, is the blood of Jesus, saith Peter expresly, in his 1 Epist. 1.2. Elect according to the foreknowledge f God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Iesus Christ: So that plainly then, and briefly, this Bood of Sprinkling, is the blood of Iesus. Called the Blod of Sprinkling, in reference unto those Types and Ceremonies of sprinkling blood, in the time of the Old Testament.