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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.
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.
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 shew thus much, that this ordinance of the Lords Supper, is the Hysop 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.
6. But then again, you must kn•w also that you must come for sprinkling with the greatest sense of unworthiness that may be. I you look into the 19th of Numb. you shall find that he that sprinkled the blood, was to be unclean until the evening, v. 7. Then the Priest shall wash his clothes, and he shl b te his flesh in Wter, and afterward he shall come into the Camp, And the Priest shall be unclean until the evening. At v. 6. The Priest shall take Cedar-wood, and Hyssop, and Scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning or the Heifer; and then the Priest shall wash his clothes, and come into the Camp, and shall be unclean until the evening. And at the 8th v. He that burneth her shll wash his clothes in Water, and bathe his flesh in Water, and shall be unclean until the evening. And a man that is clean shall gather up the Ashes of the Heifer, and lay them up without the Camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the Congregation of the children