A77360:612
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.
5. The horror of Conscience speaks it; for, If but one sin set on upon the soul by God, doth put a man into such horror of Conscience, how great is the evil of sin!
6. The troublesomness of the relics of sin in the Saints speaks it: Sins in the Saints are but wasps without their sting, And if the wasps without their sting be so troublesome, how troublesome are the wasps that have their stings in them; how troublesome is sin in it self!
6. The troublesomness of the relicks of sin in the Saints speaks it: Sins in the Saints are but wasps without their sting, And if the wasps without their sting be so troublesom, how troublesom are the wasps that have their stings in them; how troublesom is sin in it self!
But seventhly, and above all, The Blood of sprinkling speaks the evil of sin. For if the guilt of sin be so great that nothing can satisfy for it, but the Blood of Jesus, and the Filth of sin be so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof, but the blood of Jesus, How great, How heinous, How sinful must the evil of sin be? The Blood of sprinkling speaks the evil of sin: And then
But seventhly, and above all, The Blood of sprinkling speaks the evill of sin. For if the guilt of sin be so great that nothing can satisfie for it, but the Blood of Jesus, and the Filth of sin be so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof, but the blood of Jesus, How great, How hainous, How sinfull must the evil of sin be? The Blood of sprinkling speakes the evil of sin: And then