N29528:80
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
Behold, among these, A Sin-Offering for the Congregation; A Young Bullock, made a Sin Offering for the Congregation. And the Gospel of that Sin Offering, we will Endeavour now to set before you, O Congregation of our New English Israel, in the Ensuing Admonitions.
1. Let us, with a most Affectionate Contemplation, Behold the Circumstances of the Sin-Offering for the Congregation, wonderfully answered in the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ; who, by being made a Sin Offering, did Condemn Sin in the Flesh. As now: