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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.
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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.
Now, this Illustrious Priest, hath presented unto God, an Offering for us. This Offering was, His Manhood; An Humane Body; as tis said in Heb. 10. 5. Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldest not, but a Body: And an Humane Soul; as tis said in Isa. 53. 10. His Soul, a Trespass Offering. Yea, & this was an Offering of Gods own Prescribing too. An Offering that God Himself hath not Prescribed, is as a Dogs Neck, and a Swines Blood unto Him; whereas the Offering of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that whereof He could say, as, Thou, O God, hast prepared it, so, Thou, O God, hast prescribed it.
But then, there most be an Altar, whereon our Priest presented this Offering. That Altar is His Godhead. It is the Altar, which Dignifies and ⟨p. 31⟩Sanctifies the Offering. The Humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, being taken up into One Person, with the Second Person in God, the Worth of the Offering, by its Intimate Relation to that Person, is no less than Infinite. The Blood that ha's been Offered, is, as in Act. 20. 28. The Blood of God. The Life that ha's been Offered, is, as in