A77360:585
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.
For our better understanding whereof, I shall labour to show you briefly, what were the grounds and reasons of their sprinkling blood, in the times of the Old Testament, and how that is appliable to the blood of Jesus.
For our better understanding whereof, I shall labour to shew you briefly, what were the grounds and reasons of their sprinkling blood, in the times of the Old Testament, and how that is appliable to the blood of Jesus.
If you look therefore into the Old Testament, you ⟨p. 387⟩shall find that they sprinkled blood upon a fourfold account.
To confirm and ratify the Covenant between God and them.
To confirm and ratifie the Covenant between God and them.
To make an Atonement for their sin.
To make an Attonement for their sin.