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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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4. It speaketh also the worth of souls, If a Physician have a Patient ready to die, and nothing will work his cure but the heart-blood of the Physician, and the Physician should vouchsafe thereto, and let him have his heart-blood to drink; Would it not argue that the Physician thinks this mans life is of great concernment and of great worth, so 'tis here. And what doth this argue but that Jesus did look upon the souls of men, as of Infinite worth and Concernment.
4. It speaketh also the worth of souls, If a Physitian have a Patient ready to die, and nothing will work his cure but the heart-blood of the Physitian, and the Physitian should vouchsafe thereto, and let him have his heart-blood to drink; Would it not argue that the Physitian thinks this mans life is of great concernment and of great worth, so 'tis here. And what doth this argue but that Jesus did look upon the souls of men, as of Infinite worth and Concernment.
5. This blood of Jesus, and the blood of sprinkling speaketh the evil of sin: The heinousness, the sinfulness, the evil, of sin. There are many things that do speak the evil of sin, but of all things methinks the blood of sprinkling, the blood of Jesus, speaks the evil of sin loudest; Give me leave to name some, that so you may compare them and this together.
5. This blood of Jesus, and the blood of sprinkling speaketh the evill of sin: The hainousness, the sinfulness, the evill, of sin. There are many things that do speak the evill of sin, but of all things methinks the blood of sprinkling, the blood of Jesus, speaks the evill of sin loudest; Give me leave to name some, that so you may compare them and this together.
First, The separation from God, and union with Satan, speaks the evil of sin. As by Grace we are united unto God, made One with God, and separated from the Devil: so by sin we are separated from God, and united unto Satan, and made one with him.