A77360:591
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.
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.
2. Then also in those times of the Old Testament, they sprinkled blood, to make an Atonement for the sins of the people; as you have it in the 4th of Levit. 6, and the 20. verses. And the Priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the Veil of the Sanctuary. The Mercy Seat, and the Altar, were sprinkled;—the reason is given at the 20 v. And he shall do with the Bullock, as he did with the Bullock for a fin offering, so shall he do with this: And, The Priest shall make an Atonement for them; and it shall be forgiven them. And why so? But to show that it is the blood of Jesus, whereby we have Atonement, as in