A77360:622
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.
And now if you ask, How, and in what respects it speaketh better things than Abel, or then that of Abel: (For it may be translated both ways according to the several copies, But take it according to our translation: better than that of Abel, or then the blood of Abel.) How and in what respects doth the blood of Jesus speak better things than the blood of Abel?
Why it speaks better things than the Personal blood of Abel — And it speaks better things than the Sacrificed blood of Abel.
Why it speaks better things than the Personal blood of Abel — And it speakes better things than the Sacrificed blood of Abel.
It speaks better then the Personal blood of Abel: for the blood of Abel cried for vengeance against his own Brother, But the blood of Jesus cries for mercy and for remission for his Enemies: Father forgive them they know not what they do, said Christ when their hands were imbrued in his blood:
It speakes better then the Personal blood of Abel: for the blood of Abel cryed for vengeance against his own Brother, But the blood of Jesus cries for mercy and for remission for his Enemyes: Father forgive them they know not what they do, said Christ when their hands were imbrewed in his blood: