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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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Once more; Was the Expiatory Sacrifice of old Substituted in the Room of the Sinner? That so the Sinner might Escape, the Sacrifice must Supply his place; Nephesh tachath Nephesh, as they Expressed it; Life must go for Life, and Soul must, ⟨p. 34⟩go for Soul. Well; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ, as to be Substituted for Us, and to Die in our Stead, as well as for our Good. It was, as in Math. 20. 28. To give His Life, a Ransom for many. When our Lords Dying For us, is affirmed, the preposition, ANTI, is often Improved; a preposition, that implies a Commutation. Yea, the Phrases for it, all over the New Testament are such, that, until all the Greek Books under Heaven, are annihilated, the Notion of our Lords Dying in our Place, cannot be Refused.
Once more; Was the Expiatory Sacrifice of old Substituted in the Room of the Sinner? That so the Sinner might Escape, the Sacrifice must Supply his place; Nephesh tachath Nephesh, as they Expressed it; Life must go for Life, and Soul must, ⟨p. 34⟩go for Soul. Well; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ, as to be Substituted for Us, and to Dy in our Stead, as well as for our Good. It was, as in Math. 20. 28. To give His Life, a Rensome for many. When our Lords Dying For us, is affirmed, the preposition, ANTI, is often Improved; a preposition, that implies a Commutation. Yea, the Phrases for it, all over the New Testament are such, that, until all the Greek Books under Heaven, are annihilated, the Notion of our Lords Dying in our Place, cannot be Refused.
Finally; Was God Atoned upon an Expiatory Sacrifice? and the Criminal Released from the Confusion that belonged unto him, and Restored unto the Compassion of Heaven? Yes. Well; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ; that our Peace with God, is thereby obtained. We read in