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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
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3. Again, In the times of the Old Testament, they did sprinkle blood for the purification of mens Persons, ⟨p. 388⟩and of Things. As you have it in Levit. 14. v. 7. And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the Leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean. And why so? But to show that it is the blood of Jesus that doth cleanse us from all Iniquity, as in the first Epist. of John, Chap. 1.
3. Again, In the times of the Old Testament, they did sprinkle blood for the purification of mens Persons, ⟨p. 388⟩and of Things. As you have it in Levit. 14. v. 7. And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the Leprosie seven times, and shall pronounce him clean. And why so? But to shew that it is the blood of Jesus that doth cleanse us from all Iniquity, as in the first Epist. of John, Chap. 1.
4. Then in those times, they did sprinkle mens persons, for preservation from the destroying Angel: when the destroying Angel came to destroy the Egyptians, the posts of the Israelites were sprinkled, that they might be preserved. — And why? But to show that it is by the blood of Jesus, that we are preserved from the destroyer. In the 1. v. of the 1. of Jude, its said, Jude the servant of Jesus Christ, and Brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ; or preserved by Jesus Christ: and Christ our passover is sacrificed for us, saith the Apostle to the Corinthians. So that thus now you see briefly, what were the grounds and reasons of their sprinkling blood, in the times of the Old Testament, and how all this is applicable to the Blood of Jesus.