A77360:661
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. You will say (in the fifth and last place) 'Tis a great privilege to be sprinkled with the blood of sprinkling: We grant it. But what shall we do, that even we may get our souls sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, the blood of sprinkling?
5. You will say (in the fifth and last place) 'Tis a great priviledge to be sprinkled with the bloud of sprinkling: We grant it. But what shall we do, that even we may get our souls sprinkled with the bloud of Iesus, the bloud of sprinkling?
First of all you must know, That there is a two-fold sprinkling, with the blood of Sprinkling.— There is an Initial sprinkling,— and a Renewed sprinkling: As there is an Initial Repentance, and a Renewed Repentance; so there is an Initial Sprinkling, and a Renewed Sprinkling.
First of all you must know, That there is a two-fold sprinkling, with the bloud of Sprinkling.— There is an Initial sprinkling,— and a Renewed sprinkling: As there is an Initial Repentance, and a Renewed Repentance; so there is an Initial Sprinkling, and a Renewed Sprinkling.
An Initial sprinkling, and that's a mans first Conversion, when he is justified, according to that in the 1 Cor. 6.11. Such were some of you, but you are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Here's the Initial sprinkling.