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A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A…A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A…
A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this country. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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A Brief DISCOURSE, Made unto the Great and General Assembly of the… › Conclusion 3: Conclusion III.
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.
There have been two sorts of Sacrifices; Eucharistical, and Expiatory. None ever Dreamt that our Lord was an Eucharistical Sacrifice: That and How, He was an Expiatory Sacrifice, is now ⟨p. 30⟩to be Declared. If you pursue the Hebrew word, Phadah, To Redeem, as far as the Arabic, Fadah, You'll find, it signifies, To Devote ones self to Death. Truly, Twas by Devoting Himself to Death, as a Sacrifice for us, that our Lord Jesus Christ hath Redeemed us, For,
There have been two sorts of Sacrifices; Excharistical, and Expiatory. None ever Dream't that our Lord was an Eucharistical Sacrifice: That and How, He was an Expiatory Sacrifice, is now ⟨p. 30⟩to be Declared. If you pursue the Hebrew word, Phadah, To Redeem, as far as the Arabic, Fadah, You'l find, it signifies, To Devote ones self to Death. Truly, Twas by Devoting Himself to Death, as a Sacrifice for us, that our Lord Jesus Christ hath Redeemed us, For,
First; All that belonged unto a Real and Proper Sacrifice, was done to and found in our Lord Jesus Christ, when He Suffered for us. Particularly; Our Lord Jesus Christ, as God and Man in One Person, as our Immanuel, as our Mediator, is a Glorious Priest. It is our well-grounded Belief, in Heb. 8. 1. We have such an High Priest, who is set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens.