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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 4: Conclusion. IV.
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.
Now, if you Consult the Book Leviticus, you will find Six kinds of Propitiatory Sacrifices, among the Jews; all of them, the Types of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is a Propitiation for the Sins, not only of the Jewish, but also of the Gentile World. There was, (I) The Burnt-Offering. (II) The Meat Offering. (III) The Peace Offering. (IV) The Sin Offering. (V) The ⟨p. 39⟩Trespass-Offering. (VI) The Offering of Consecrations. All these were Offerings at the Brazen-Altar; All these were Offerings made by Fire; All these were Offerings designed for Propitiation.
Among these, one is a Sin-Offering. The Difference between the Sin-Offering, and the Trespass Offering, Lay in this: The Sin Offering was for Sins of Ignorance, of Infirmity, of Greater Surprisal by Temptation: The Trespass-Offering was for Sins against Knowledge, and Crimes of a more grievous and heinous Nature.
Now the Law of the Sin-Offering, distinctly directed it for Four sorts of Subjects: (I) The Priest. (II) The Body of the People. (III) The Ruler of the People. (IV) Any Private Person among the People.