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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.
But suppose that I be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, and that this blood of sprinkling hath indeed fallen upon my soul, what is my duty then?
1. Then, Go away and doubt no more. When the sinning Jew was sprinkled, do you think he doubted whether he were pardoned or no? No surely, he did believe that he was pardoned, and that he was in Covenant with God. For those words were used, This is the Blood of the Covenant. And shall you be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, and will you doubt whether you be in Covenant with the Lord by Grace or no? &c.
This blood of sprinkling speaketh, and you have heard what it speaks; — now then I pray take heed that you don't refuse him that speaketh from Heaven; mark how it follows, in the very next words to the ⟨p. 409⟩Text, We are come to the Blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh, for if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on Earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven. Why man or woman! 'tis Jesus that speaketh to thee, Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant that speaks un•o you to believe: What, are you sprinkled? go away then and doubt no more: but take heed that ye refuse not him that speaketh from Heaven.
This blood of sprinkling speaketh, and you have heard what it speaks; — now then I pray take heed that you don't refuse him that speaketh from Heaven; mark how it follows, in the very next words to the ⟨p. 409⟩Text, We are come to the Blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh, for if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on Earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven. Why man or woman! 'tis Jesus that speaketh to thee, Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant that speakes uno you to believe: What, are you sprinkled? go away then and doubt no more: but take heed that ye refuse not him that speaketh from Heaven.