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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.
But others think rather that these words are to be understood of the sacrificed blood of Abel. And because Abel is the first that stands upon record in Scripture for offering a sacrifice with blood, It is as if the Apostle should say, The sacrifice of Jesus on ⟨p. 394⟩the Cross, and the blood of Jesus, speaketh better things than the sacrifice of Abel, or of all the sacrifices in the Old-Testament. And Indeed, This is more suitable to the scope of the Apostle here; For the design of the Apostle here, is, to show the excellency of New-Testament sacrifice, and of the way of the New-Testament, above the Old. And if you look into the Scripture you find, that though in the Fourth of Genesis, it •s said, Abel's blood cried, yet notwithstanding i• is not said that Abel or his blood speaketh: bu• •n the Eleventh of the Hebrews 'tis said that, in point of sacrifice, By faith, Abel speaketh: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain, and by it he, being dead, yet spe•keth. In point of sacrifice by faith, he yet speaketh.
But others think rather that these words are to be understood of the sacrificed blood of Abel. And because Abel is the first that stands upon record in Scripture for offering a sacrifice with blood, It is as if the Apostle should say, The sacrifice of Jesus on ⟨p. 394⟩the Cross, and the blood of Jesus, speaketh better things than the sacrifice of Abel, or of all the sacrifices in the Old-Testament. And Indeed, This is more sutable to the scope of the Apostle here; For the design of the Apostle here, is, to shew the excellencie of New-Testament sacrifice, and of the way of the New-Testament, above the Old. And if you look into the Scripture you find, that though in the Fourth of Genesis, it •s said, Abels blood cryed, yet notwithstanding i• is not said that Abel or his blood speaketh: bu• •n the Eleventh of the Hebrews 'tis said that, in point of sacrifice, By faith, Abel speaketh: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellen sacrifice then Cain, and by it he, being dead, yet speketh. In point of sacrifice by faith, he yet speaketh.