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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.
For the sanctification, and purification of their Persons and things.
And for the preservation of their Persons.
Accordingly therefore, saith the Apostle, Heb. 9.19. the Book was sprinkled: so in the 24. of Exod. the meaning of it is given, v. 7. And he took the Book of the Covenant, and read in the audience of the people, and they said, all that the Lord hath said, we will do, and be obedient; and Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, behold the blood of the Covenant: and the 9th of the Heb. tells us, That he sprinkled the Book it self; — And why so? — But to show thus much, That it is the Blood of Jesus that doth ratify and confirm the Covenant now made, between God and us; as at large in that 9th of the Hebrews.
Accordingly therefore, saith the Apostle, Heb. 9.19. the Book was sprinkled: so in the 24. of Exod. the meaning of it is given, v. 7. And he took the Book of the Covenant, and read in the audience of the people, and they said, all that the Lord hath said, we will do, and be obedient; and Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, behold the blood of the Covenant: and the 9th of the Heb. tells us, That he sprinkled the Book it self; — And why so? — But to shew thus much, That it is the Blood of Jesus that doth ratifie and confirm the Covenant now made, between God and us; as at large in that 9th of the Hebrews.