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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. Go away and sin no more: Be not defiled with sin, for you see it cost dear to cleanse you. The blood of Sprinkling, the blood of Jesus.
5. Go away and sin no more: Be not defiled with sin, for you see it cost dear to cleanse you. The bloud of Sprinkling, the bloud of Jesus.
6. And go away and honour God, yet more in believing. It may be there are some here, that never honoured God to this day, with a believing smile: Man, Woman, art thou sprinkled, indeed sprinkled with the blood of Jesus? Go away then, and honour the Lord, with one smile of Faith this day.
6. And go away and honour God, yet more in believing. It may be there are some here, that never honoured God to this day, with a believing smile: Man, Woman, art thou sprinkled, indeed sprinkled with the bloud of Jesus? Go away then, and honour the Lord, with one smile of Faith this day.
7. And to conclude all, Art thou indeed sprinkled with the blood of Jesus; then go away, and be sure that you never sell your Birth-right, for a mess of Pottage: Mark, how this Text comes in. In this 12 of the Heb. the Apostle speaking of profane Esau: Take heed, saith he, lest there be any Fornicator, or Profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat, sold his Birth-right: For ye know how that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of Repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears; for ye are not come to Mount Sinai, but ye are come to Mount Zion, and ye are come to Jesus, the Mediator of the Covenant, and to the blood of Sprinkling. What then? O! Take heed you do not sell your Birth-right, for a mess of Pottage!— What is your Birth-right? The Gospel is your Birth-right, you are born there-to (through Grace:) And, What is your little estate, but a mess of Pottage; and what is your great estate, but a great boll of Pottage. O! Do not sell your birth-right for a mess of Pottage. You are sprinkled, and the blood of sprinkling is upon you. Then hold fast, keep your birth right, and never sell it for a mess of Pottage; for ye are come unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the Blood of Sprinkling: That speaketh better things, than the blood of Abel. And thus now I have done with the fourth Argument, and with this Text.