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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.
4. Though there be nothing on this side Christ that can cleanse your souls, but the blood of Jesus, yet it is the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle it. The blood of Jesus is then sprinkled, when it is applied: now this is the work of the Holy Ghost, I will sprinkle you with clean water, I le wash you with water? As it is a derogation to the blood of Christ to go to any else for cleansing; So 'tis a derogation to the Spirit of Christ to go to any else for sprinkling, or to go to any else for that application of the Blood of Christ. 'Tis only the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle this blood upon your and my soul.
4. Though there be nothing on this side Christ that can cleanse your souls, but the blood of Jesus, yet it is the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle it. The blood of Jesus is then sprinkled, when it is applied: now this is the work of the Holy Ghost, I will sprinkle you with clean water, I le wash you with water? As it is a derogation to the blood of Christ to go to any else for cleansing; So 'tis a derogation to the Spirit of Christ to go to any else for sprinkling, or to go to any else for that application of the Blood of Christ. 'Tis onely the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle this blood upon your and my soul.
5. Though this sprinkling must be done only by ⟨p. 407⟩the Spirit; Yet notwithstanding this blood of Jesus is sprinkled by the ordinance in the hand of the Spirit; by the preaching of the Gospel. He preaches not that sprinkles not the blood of Christ in preaching; and especially by that great ordinance of the Lords Supper. You may observe therefore, that the same words that were used in the Old Testament when they sprinkled the blood, This is the blood of the Covenant, as in the 9th of the Hebrews, are used by our Saviour Christ at the Lords Supper: This Cup is the New Testament in my blood, &c. Why so? but to show thus much, that this ordinance of the Lords Supper, is the Hyssop in the hand of the Spirit, whereby the souls of believers are sprinkled with a fresh sprinkling: Oh therefore who would not come to this ordinance of the Lords supper in a right way and manner.