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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.
2. And though Abel offered an excellent sacrifice, he did not offer his own Blood: But Jesus did; he offered up himself by the Eternal Spirit, as in the 9th of the Heb.
3. And though Abel, and the Fathers of the Old Testament offered excellent sacrifices, yet they offered often, and so those sacrifices could not make the Comers thereunto perfect, saith the Apostle, But Christ offered himself once for all. And so he hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified. Heb. 10.
3. And though Abel, and the Fathers of the Old Testament offered excellent sacrifices, yet they offered often, and so those sacrifices could not make the Commers thereunto perfect, saith the Apostle, But Christ offered himself once for all. And so he hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified. Heb. 10.
4. Though Abel and the Fathers in the Old Testament did offer excellent sacrifices, yet their sacrifice was after their sin committed; when they had committed a sin, then they were to get a sacrifice, and possibly they might have died before the sacrifice; was offered: but the sacrifice of Christ is, before our sin is committed; we cannot die between the sin and the sacrifice.
4. Though Abel and the Fathers in the Old Testament did offer excellent sacrifices, yet their sacrifice was after their sin committed; when they had commited a sin, then they were to get a sacrifice, and possibly they might have died before the sacrifice; was offered: but the sacrifice of Christ is, before our sin is committed; we cannot die between the sin and the sacrifice.