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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.
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Once more. Was the rest of the Blood of Sin Offering for the Congregation, to be Parish forth at the Bottom of the Altar of Burnt-Offering? Truly The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, ha's been Poured forth: Tis said, He hath poured out His Soul unto Death. When Circumcised, when Buffeted in His Agony when Scourged with Thongs, when Crowned with Thom. when Fastened with Iron unto a Tree, (for our Lord, becoming the Servant of God, must have ⟨p. 42⟩his Ear-Bored, and a Body fastened with Iron, unto a post of Wood!) When Pierced with a Spear, in all these, His precious Blood was poured forth. But the Efficacy of this Blood, that which renders if so Precious, is, Its Nearness to the Altar. Our Lords Deity, is that Altar, from which the virtue of His Blood arises: Were not the Blood our Lord Jesus Christ, at the Bottom of that Altar, it would have no virtue, and small value in it.
Once more. Was the rest of the Blood of Sin Offering for the Congregation, to be Parish forth at the Bottom of the Altar of Burnt-Offering? Truly The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, ha's been Poured forth: Tis said, He hath poured out His Soul unto Death. When Circumcised, when Buffeted in His Agony when Scourged with Thongs, when Crowned with Thom. when Fastned with Iron unto a Tree, (for our Lord, becoming the Servant of God, must have ⟨p. 42⟩his Ear-Bored, and a Body fastned with Iron, unto a post of Wood!) When Pierced with a Spear, in all these, His precious Blood was poured forth. But the Efficacy of this Blood, that which renders if so Precious, is, Its Nearness to the Altar. Our Lords Deity, is that Altar, from which the vertue of His Blood arises: Were not the Blood our Lord Jesus Christ, at the Bottom of that Altar, it would have no vertue, and small value in it.
To Conclude; Was the Sin Offering for the Congregation, to be Burned; the Inwards of it, on the Altar; all the whole Carcass beside, in a clean place without the Camp, or without the City-Gates? Truly, The Wrath of God, like a Formidable Fire, Seized on our Lord Jesus Christ: It was a Fiery Trial That came upon Him: His very Inwards were all on a Light Fire under the Wrath of the Most High. This horrid Fire, cast all His Inwards into such an Anguish, as caused a Bloody Sweat upon Him. Then was our Lord carried forth, without the Gates of the City: 'Tis said, They carried Him out of Jerusalem, to Golgotha. So says our Apostle, in