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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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Let our Third Plea be This; That if God will Deliver us from His Judgments, the Oblation of our Lord Jesus Christ shall have the Glory of it all; We are as an Unfruitful Figtree before the Lord; that old Picture of the Jewish Nation, is Ours; We Deserve Cutting down: Our Lord Jesus Christ sees the Axe of Divine Vengeance ready to strike the fatal Blow; He takes the Blow upon Himself, and is Cut off out of the Land of the Living. If we then are Saved from Desolating Blows, laid at the Root of the Tree, we will say, Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ for This! He warded off the Blow: For the Transgression of my People, was He Stricken. Sirs, You cannot Imagine, how Delightful it will be unto the God of Heaven, to hear us Pleading of these Arguments?
But Add one more unto them. Let our fourth Plea be, That our Lord Jesus Christ, hath been made a Sacrifice for Sins, which had no Sin Offering allowed unto them. Atrocious and Flagitious, and Prodigious Impieties, for which the Sin Offering was never directed; no, nor the Trespass-Offering neither; even for Those, is our Lord Christ a Sacrifice. There was a ⟨p. 47⟩chief man in Israel, who could say, Thou desirest not Sacrifice: The Jewish Commentators give This, as the Sense of it; That his Crimes were such as had no Sacrifice in the Law of Moses provided for them. Yea, but for such is the Sacrifice of the Messiah provided. Hence the Apostle says, in Act. 13. 39. By Him, all that Believe▪ are Justified from all Things, from which ye could not be Justified by the Law of Moses. Even Blasphemy it self, which had no Sacrifice in the Law of Moses, may find one, in the Lord Jesus Christ: Says Paul, I was a Blasphemer, but I obtained mercy! The Law of Moses tells us, Num. 15. 25, 30. The Priest shall make Atonement, for all the Congregation, and it shall be Forgiven them, for it is Ignorance: But the Soul that doth ought presumptuously, shall be cut off. Yea, but in our Lord Jesus Christ we have a Sacrifice, for which our Presumptions also may be Forgiven unto us! Oh! plead it; plead it, with the God who forgives Iniquity, Transgression and Sin.