A77360:675
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.
And secondly; Then also conclude and say; Now know I that I shall be preserved from the destroyer. When the Israelites posts were sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb, They could say; Now know I that I shall not be destroyed by this destroying Angel? Art thou sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, say then: Now know I that I shall not be destroyed, but that the Angel shall pass over me in the destroying day.
And secondly; Then also conclude and say; Now know I that I shall be preserved from the destroyer. When the Isralites posts were sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb, They could say; Now know I that I shall not be destroyed by this destroying Angel? Art thou sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, say then: Now know I that I shall not be destroyed, but that the Angel shall pass over me in the destroying day.
3. Then also go away and be Contented with your Condition what ever it be: And well you may, if you be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus you are made partakers of the greatest privilege that can be, and will you not then be contented with your Condition? Go away and be contented with your Conditions, saying I have now received the greatest privilege, for I am sprinkled with the blood of Jesus. therefore will I be contented with my Condition? What ever it be.
3. Then also go away and be Contented with your Condition what ever it be: And well you may, if you be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus you are made partakers of the greatest priveledg that can be, and will you not then be contented with your Condition? Go away and be contented with your Conditions, saying I have now received the greatest privelege, for I am sprinkled with the blood of Jesus. therefore will I be contented with my Condition? What ever it be.