A77360:671
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.
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 sh•l b• t•e his flesh in W•ter, 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 sh•ll 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 ⟨p. 408⟩of Israel for a Water of separation: It is a purification for sin, and he that gathereth the Ashes of the Heifer, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. — What's all this, but to show thus much; That they might not come to this sacred Expiation, but with the greatest sense of their unworthiness; Plainly showing thus much, That there is no meddling with this blood of sprinkling, but with the greatest sense of our unworthiness of the blood of Jesus. Now therefore, do you desire that you may be sprinkled with this blood of sprinkling? then, whensoever you go to the blood of Jesus, and look upon it, go with the greatest sense of your unworthiness of this blood; then go to the Spirit of God (whose work alone it is) to apply and sprinkle, and then stand and wait where the Spirit stands with his Hyssop to sprinkle the souls of men: and so shall you be made partakers of this great privilege.
6. But then again, you must kn•w •lso that you must come for sprinkling with the great'st sense of unworthines that may be. I you look into the 19th of Numb. you shall find that he that sprinkd the blood, was to be unclean until the evening, v. 7. Then the Priest shall wash his cloaths, 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 Hysop, and Scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning or the Heifer; and then the Priest shall wash his cloaths, and come into the Camp, and shall be unclean until the evening. And at the 8th v. He that burneth her shll wash his cloathes 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