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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.
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.
4. Then in those times, they did sprinkle mens persons, for preservation from the destroying Angel: when the destroying Angel came to destroy the Aegyptians, the posts of the Israelites were sprinkled, that they might be preserved. — And why? But to shew 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.
And if you look wishly into the Scripture, and compare things with things, you shall find that Moses in the times of the Old Testament, did divide the blood of the Covenant, part whereof was sprinkled upon the Altar, poured down at the foot of the Altar, to oblige God to the Covenant. — And part of it was sprinkled upon the people, to confirm their souls in the certainty of the Covenant, and to oblige them to observe and keep Covenant with God. So, with the blood of Christ. And therefore when our Lord and Saviour Christ speaks at the Lords Supper, he saith, This Cup is the New Testament in my blood, shed for many, for the Remission of sins. The first part