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A77360	Christ and the covenant the work and way of meditation. : Gods return to the soul, or nation; together with his preventing mercy. : Delivered in ten sermons, (viz.) 1. Christs personal excellencies, the object of our love. 2. Christ crucified, the object of our faith. 3. The new covenant of grace opened. 4. Christ the mediator of the new covenant. 5. The way and spirit of the new covenant, or New Testament. 6. The blood of sprinkling. 7. The sweetness and profitableness of divine meditation. 8. The work and way of this meditation. 9. Gods return to the soul and nation. 10. Preventing mercy. / By W.B.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing B4449A; ESTC R225773	165,221	279

the obedience of the second Adam doth consist in being obedient unto a positive commandment which was the symbol of his obedience to the whole Law of God This c●mmandment received I of my Father saith he And as Moses the Head of that Covenant was faithful in all his house in so much as it s said of him As the L●rd Commanded so did he so Jesus the head of this second Covenant was faithful in all his trust and as the Lord Commanded so did he As the Father gave me commandment saith he even so I do John 14. last So that the blood of sprinkling speaks the highest obedience in the World 4. It speaketh also the worth of souls If a Physitian have a Patient ready to die and nothing will work his cure but the heart-blood of the Physitian and the Physitian should vouchsafe thereto and let him have his heart-blood to drink Would it not argue that the Physitian thinks this mans life is of great concernment and of great worth so 't is here And what doth this argue but that Jesus did look upon the souls of men as of Infinite worth and Concernment 5. This blood of Jesus and the blood of sprinkling speaketh the evill of sin The hainousness the sinfulness the evill of sin There are many things that do speak the evill of sin but of all things methinks the blood of sprinkling the blood of Jesus speaks the evill of sin loudest Give me leave to name some that so you may compare them and this together First The separation from God and union with Satan speakes the evill of sin As by Grace we are united unto God made One with God and separated from the Devil so by sin we are separated from God and united unto Satan and made one with him 2. The Condemnation of the whole World by the sin of Adam speaks the evill of sin If the eating of the Apple committing that one sin brought Condemnation upon all the World how g eat must the evil of sin be 3. The fire of Hell speaks the evil of sin for what is the fewel that the fire of hell feeds upon but sin take sin away and the fire of Hell will die it will be quencht 4. The spoyl of Dutyes speaks it One sinful thought is enough to spoyl a prayer to spoyl a Duty to spoyl a Sermon And if one drop of Inke shall black a whole Glass of milk how black is that Inke 5. The horror of Conscience speaks it for If but one sin set on upon the soul by God doth put a man into such horror of Conscience how great is the evil of sin 6. The troublesomness of the relicks of sin in the Saints speaks it Sins in the Saints are but wasps without their sting And if the wasps without their sting be so troublesom how troublesom are the wasps that have their stings in them how troublesom is sin in it self But seventhly and above all The Blood of sprinkling speaks the evill of sin For if the guilt of sin be so great that nothing can satisfie for it but the Blood of Jesus and the Filth of sin be so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus How great How hainous How sinfull must the evil of sin be The Blood of sprinkling speakes the evil of sin And then 6ly As the Blood of sprinkling speaks the evil of sin so it speakes the riches and the freeness of the Love of God 'T was love in Jonathan to part with his Garment for David What love is it in Christ to part with his Blood for us It was love that made Christ weep over Lazarus They said Behold how he loved him And if his Tears speak his love what doth his Blood 'T is love to give a cup of cold water to a Disciple what is it then to give ones warm Blood unto Enemies Three things there are that do make a gift greatly free 1. The greatness of the gift given 2. The unworthiness of the Person given unto 3. And the greatness of the person that gives 1. As for the gift it self What greater than the Blood of Jesus 2. As for the Persons given unto who more unworthy then sinfull men 3. As for the Person that doth give who greater then God in the three Persons The Father gives Christ to die The Son dies and gives his Blood And the Holy-Ghost comes and sprinkles it for it is the work of the Holy-Ghost to sprinkle this is another thing that the Blood of Jesus speaks It speakes the Riches and the freeness of the love of God these are the things that this blood of sprinkling speaketh And now if you ask How and in what respects it speaketh better things than Abel or then that of Abel For it may be translated both ways according to the several copies But take it according to our translation better than that of Abel or then the blood of Abel How and in what respects doth the blood of Jesus speak better things than the blood of Abel Why it speaks better things than the Personal blood of Abel And it speakes better things than the Sacrificed blood of Abel It speakes better then the Personal blood of Abel for the blood of Abel cryed for vengeance against his own Brother But the blood of Jesus cries for mercy and for remission for his Enemyes Father forgive them they know not what they do said Christ when their hands were imbrewed in his blood But others think rather that these words are to be understood of the sacrificed blood of Abel And because Abel is the first that stands upon record in Scripture for offering a sacrifice with blood It is as if the Apostle should say The sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross and the blood of Jesus speaketh better things than the sacrifice of Abel or of all the sacrifices in the Old-Testament And Indeed This is more sutable to the scope of the Apostle here For the design of the Apostle here is to shew the excellencie of New-Testament sacrifice and of the way of the New-Testament above the Old And if you look into the Scripture you find that though in the Fourth of Genesis it ●s said Abels blood cryed yet notwithstanding i● is not said that Abel or his blood speaketh bu●●n the Eleventh of the Hebrews 't is said that in point of sacrifice By faith Abel speaketh By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellen● sacrifice then Cain and by it he being dead yet spe●keth In point of sacrifice by faith he yet speaketh And would you know how the blood of Jesus speaketh better things than the sacrificed blood of Abel or than all the sacrifices of the old Testament Thus. 1. The blood of Jesus and the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross doth give efficacie unto all those sacrifices What a●e all the Types and Ceremonies but dead things without the thing Typified 2. And though Abel offered an excellent sacrifice he did not offer

in Heaven and Earth are reconciled Col. 1.20 6. Thereby are your souls justified and your sins pardoned In whom we have Redemption through his bloud The forgiveness of our sins Ephes 1. 7. Thereby are you washed and cleansed and sanctified The blood of Jesus cleanseth from all iniquity 1 Iohn 1. 8. Thereby is your great adversary Satan routed and overcome and spoyled Rev. 12. They overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb. 9. Thereby Christ is made welcome by his Father when he comes into Heaven in your name to intercede for you In the times of the Old Testament the high Priest went into the Holy of holiest and carried bloud and sprinkled the Mercy-Seat seven times But the high Priest did not sit down Now in the 10. of Heb. 11. it 's said And every high Priest standeth dayly ministring and offering often times the same sacrifices which can never take away sins But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down at the right Hand of God the Father The high Priest did not then sit down but now when Christ comes into Heaven with your names upon his Heart to sprinkle the Mercy-Seat with his bloud Come my Son saith the Father sit down and welcome upon this account 10. And thereby also have you entrance into the Holy of holiest as in the 10th of the Heb. 11. And if indeed you be sprinkled with this bloud of sprinkling then are you at one with the Mercy-Seat 'T is the same blood that 's sprinkled upon the Mercy-Seat in Heaven and that 's sprinkled upon your souls here on Earth The same bloud in the time of the Old Testament that was sprinkled upon the people was sprinkled upon the Altar and the Mercy-seat so the same bloud that 's now in Heaven sprinkled upon the Mercy-seat is sprinkled upon your hearts 12. If you are sprinkled with this bloud of sprinkling then all the Promises are yours for all the Promises are Yea and Amen in Christ And if Christs bloud be sprinkled on you and applied to you then may you apply the Promises to your selves 13. And if indeed you be sprinkled with this bloud of sprinkling then are all things clean unto you for as the bloud of sprinkling is sprinkled upon your souls so are all your Injoyments be sprinkled with it 14. And if you be indeed sprinkled with the bloud of Jesus then may you go away and say Now are all the blessings of the Covenant mine The day that you are sprinkled with the bloud of Iesus you may say now know I that my sins are pardoned Mercy is mine and Pardon is mine and Adoption is mine As when the Psalmist had a sight of God he cried out and said Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine So the day that you have this sight of God in being sprinkled with the bloud of Iesus you may cry out and say Not Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine But Pardon is mine and Adoption is mine and Heaven is mine and God is mine for ever Oh! Who would not labour to get his soul sprinkled now with the bloud of sprinkling 5. You will say in the fifth and last place 'T is a great priviledge to be sprinkled with the bloud of sprinkling We grant it But what shall we do that even we may get our souls sprinkled with the bloud of Iesus the bloud of sprinkling First of all you must know That there is a two-fold sprinkling with the bloud of Sprinkling There is an Initial sprinkling and a Renewed sprinkling As there is an Initial Repentance and a Renewed Repentance so there is an Initial Sprinkling and a Renewed Sprinkling An Initial sprinkling and that 's a mans first Conversion when he is justified according to that in the 1 Cor. 6.11 Such were some of you but you are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Here 's the Initial sprinkling The Renewed sprinkling is upon a two-fold account 1. Upon the account of some great sin committed and 2. Upon the account of some special duty to be performed A fresh sprinkling there must be upon some great sin committed So in the 51 Psalm saith David Wash me throughly from mine iniquity He had sin'd a great sin but his sin was pardoned Psal 51. Title A Psal● of David when Nathan the Prophet came unto him that was after Nathan came to him And what di● Nathan say he told him his sin was pardoned yet saith David v. 7. Purge me with Hysop I must have a fresh sprinkling after some great sin committed there must be a fresh sprinkling with the blood of Jesus And upon duty to be performed especially some great duty to be performed there must also be a fresh sprinkling In the 10th Heb. 22. Paul saith Let us draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water why our bodies washed with pure water It relates to the washings in the Old Testament when the Priests were to come to offer a sacrifice there was a Laver and they were then to wash themselves so saith the Apostle let us draw neer to God having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water because upon a new address to God a fresh sprinkling with the blood of Jesus is to be had 'T is not enough to have an old sprinkling with the blood of Jesus but upon all our approaches to God especially after some great sin committed or some special duty to be performed we must come and get a fresh sprinkling with the blood of Jesus 2. You must know also that though you have bin very great sinners yet you are not uncapable of this sprinkling with the blood of Jesus The Apostle saith in that place of the Corinthians Such were some of you what such v. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor Abusers of themselves with man-kind nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God And such were some of you but ye are washed how why ye are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God which sprinkles which applies the blood of Christ So then though ye have bin great sinners yet you are not uncapable of being sprinkled with this blood of sprinkling 3. You must know this also that there is nothing on this side the blood of Jesus this blood of sprinkling that can cleanse you If any thing should bid for our cleansing methinks it should be our sufferings and persecutions for the name of God but look into the 7th Rev. 14th it's said These are they which came out of great Tribulations and have washed their Robes and made them white in the