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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. You must know also, that though you have bin very great sinners, yet you are not uncapable of this sprinkling with the blood of Jesus. The Apostle saith in that place of the Corinthians: Such were some of you;— what such? v. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. Be not deceived, neither Fornicators, nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor Abusers of themselves with man-kind, nor Thieves, nor Covetous, nor Drunkards, nor Revilers, nor Extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you; but ye are ⟨p. 406⟩washed, —how?— why ye are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God, which sprinkles, which applies the blood of Christ: So then, though ye have bin great sinners, yet you are not uncapable of being sprinkled with this blood of sprinkling.
2. You must know also, that though you have bin very great sinners, yet you are not uncapable of this sprinkling with the blood of Jesus. The Apostle saith in that place of the Corinthians: Such were some of you;— what such? v. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God. Be not deceived, neither Fornicators, nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor Abusers of themselves with man-kind, nor Thieves, nor Covetous, nor Drunkards, nor Revilers, nor Extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you; but ye are ⟨p. 406⟩washed, —how?— why ye are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God, which sprinkles, which applies the blood of Christ: So then, though ye have bin great sinners, yet you are not uncapable of being sprinkled with this blood of sprinkling.
3. You must know this also, that there is nothing on this side the blood of Jesus, this blood of sprinkling, that can cleanse you: If any thing should bid for our cleansing, methinks it should be our sufferings and persecutions for the name of God; but look into the 7th