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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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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.
5. And though Abel and the Fathers of the Old Testament offered excellent sacrifices, the blood whereof was sprinkled on the people, yet that was but to the purifying of the flesh, for saith the Apostle at the 13th v. of the 9th Chap. If the Blood of Bulls and of Goats, and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh &c. But the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, purgeth our Consciences from dead works. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your Conscience from dead works, to serve the living God. Upon which words saith Capellus, you have here the excellency of this offering above all other offerings in the World: above the offerings of the Heathen, above the offerings of the Jews, above the offerings of the Christians. Above the offerings of the Heathens; for they sacrificed to Devils, but he offered himself without spot to God. — Above the sacrifice of the Jews; for their blood of sprinkling sanctified to the purifying of the Flesh, but this to the purging of your Conscience from dead works. — Above the offering of the Christians; for though Christians offer up spiritual sacrifices to God, as prayers, and thanksgivings, yet not without spot; but he offered himself through the Eternal spirit without spot to God.