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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 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:
Was the Sin Offering for the Congregation, to be a Young Bullock, without Blemish? Truly, Our Lord Jesus Christ Suffered for us, even in His Youth; The Ancient of Days indeed Suffered for us, before He was an Old Man. He Suffered, because We must say, Lord, I have been as Bullock unaccustomed unto thy Yoke! And when He Suffered, He was altogether free from any Blemish upon Him: His Perfection was Absolute.