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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.
First, What this Blood of Sprinkling speaketh.
1. It speaketh a necessity of satisfaction, for, Without blood there is no Remission.
2. It speaketh the Righteousness of God: If God have burnt down such a City as this, to declare his Righteousness; how much more doth the shedding of the blood of Jesus, declare the Righteousness of God: To declare, I say, his Righteousness, saith the Apostle, in Rom. 3.
2. It speaketh the Righteousness of God: If God have burnt down such a City as this, to declare his Righteousness; how much more doth the shedding of the blood of Iesus, declare the Righteousness of God: To declare, I say, his Righteousness, saith the Apostle, in Rom. 3.
3. It speaketh the highest Obedience, that ever the Sun saw. That the Son of God should be obedient unto death, laying down his blood, is the highest Obedience. As the disobedience of the first Adam, was in the matter of the Tree; so the obedience of the second Adam, was in the matter of the Tree: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body, on the Tree, saith the Apostle.— As the disobedience of the first Adam, was in the transgressing a positive commandment, which was the symbol of obedience to the whole Moral Law: So the obedience of the second Adam, doth consist in being obedient unto a positive commandment, which was the symbol of his obedience to the whole Law of God: This commandment received I of my Father, saith he.— And as Moses the Head of that Covenant, was faithful in all his house; in so much