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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

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

Blood of the Lamb. They have washed their Robes how what with their great Tribulations No They came out of great Tribulations but their Tribulations dont wash them these are they that came out of great Tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Nothing on this side Christ and this blood of sprinkling can cleanse your souls But 4. Though there be nothing on this side Christ that can cleanse your souls but the blood of Jesus yet it is the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle it The blood of Jesus is then sprinkled when it is applied now this is the work of the Holy Ghost I will sprinkle you with clean water I le wash you with water As it is a derogation to the blood of Christ to go to any else for cleansing So 't is a derogation to the Spirit of Christ to go to any else for sprinkling or to go to any else for that application of the Blood of Christ 'T is onely the Spirit of Christ that must sprinkle this blood upon your and my soul 5. Though this sprinkling must be done only by the Spirit Yet notwithstanding this blood of Jesus is sprinkled by the ordinance in the hand of the Spirit by the preaching of the Gospel He preaches not that sprinkles not the blood of Christ in preaching and especially by that great ordinance of the Lords Supper You may observe therefore that the same words that were used in the Old Testament when they sprinkled the blood This is the blood of the Covenant as in the 9th of the Hebrews are used by our Saviour Christ at the Lords Supper This Cup is the New Testament in my blood c. Why so but to shew thus much that this ordinance of the Lords Supper is the Hysop in the hand of the Spirit whereby the souls of believers are sprinkled with a fresh sprinkling Oh therefore who would not come to this ordinance of the Lords supper in a right way and manner 6. But then again you must kn●w ●lso that you must come for sprinkling with the great'st sense of unworthines that may be I● you look into the 19th of Numb you shall find that he that sprink●●d the blood was to be unclean until the evening v. 7. Then the Priest shall wash his cloaths and he sh●l b● t●e his flesh in W●ter and afterward he shall come into the Camp And the Priest shall be unclean until the evening At v. 6. The Priest shall take Cedar-wood and Hysop and Scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning or the Heifer and then the Priest shall wash his cloaths and come into the Camp and shall be unclean until the evening And at the 8th v. He that burneth her sh●ll wash his cloathes in Water and bathe his flesh in Water and shall be unclean until the evening And a man that is clean shall gather up the Ashes of the Heifer and lay them up without the Camp in a clean place and it shall be kept for the Congregation of the children of Israel for a Water of separation It is a purification for sin and he that gathereth the Ashes of the Heifer shall wash his cloaths and be unclean until the evening What 's all this but to shew thus much That they might not come to this sacred Expiation but with the greatest sense of their unworthiness Plainly shewing thus much That there is no medling with this blood of sprinkling but with the greatest sense of our unworthiness of the blood of Jesus Now therefore do you desire that you may be sprinkled with this blood of sprinkling then whensoever you go to the blood of Jesus and look upon it go with the greatest sense of your unworthiness of this blood then go to the Spirit of God whose work alone it is to apply and sprinkle and then stand and wait where the Spirit stands with his Hysop to sprinkle the souls of men and so shall you be made partakers of this great priviledge But suppose that I be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and that this blood of sprinkling hath indeed fallen upon my soul what is my duty then 1. Then Go away and doubt no more When the sinning Jew was sprinkled do you think he doubted whether he were pardoned or no No surely he did believe that he was pardoned and that he was in Covenant with God For those words were used This is the Blood of the Covenant And shall you be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and will you doubt whether you be in Covenant with the Lord by Grace or no c. This blood of sprinkling speaketh and you have heard what it speaks now then I pray take heed that you don't refuse him that speaketh from Heaven mark how it follows in the very next words to the Text We are come to the Blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel See that ye refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on Earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven Why man or woman 't is Jesus that speaketh to thee Jesus the Mediator of the Covenant that speakes un●o you to believe What are you sprinkled go away then and doubt no more but take heed that ye refuse not him that speaketh from Heaven And secondly Then also conclude and say Now know I that I shall be preserved from the destroyer When the Isralites posts were sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb They could say Now know I that I shall not be destroyed by this destroying Angel Art thou sprinkled with the blood of Jesus say then Now know I that I shall not be destroyed but that the Angel shall pass over me in the destroying day 3. Then also go away and be Contented with your Condition what ever it be And well you may if you be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus you are made partakers of the greatest priveledg that can be and will you not then be contented with your Condition Go away and be contented with your Conditions saying I have now received the greatest privelege for I am sprinkled with the blood of Jesus therefore will I be contented with my Condition What ever it be 4. And then go away and praise God and be very thankful Be very thankful to God the Father and to the Lamb with whose blood you are sprinkled Look into the 5th Rev. and you shall find there are 3 quires of Praisers and all praising upon the account of this blood And when he had opened the book v. 9. the 24. Elders fell down before the Lamb and they sung a new song The four and twenty Elders these are men saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood By thy bloud here 's the foot of the Song Then comes in the

of the great deliverance from the wrath to come give us a taste of hell by his withdrawings and by his departings from us for a season Thirdly I am sure 't is very fit that we should be conformed unto Jesus Christ As Christ was conformed unto us in reference to our Temptations so 't is fit we should be conformed to him in reference to his Desertions Christ was deserted Christ was forsaken My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Surely the Disciple is not above his Master But Fourthly I am sure of this That God loves to see the workings of all our graces our Faith and Love especially There are some graces that do not open nor shew themselves but in the Sunshining day of Gods presence When the Sun shines the Marigold opens When the Sun shines the Fish that lay at the bottom of the water in a cloudy day swim at the top of the water and are seen In the Sunshining day of Gods presence then our Thankfulness our Joy our Assurance floats and are to be seen upon the top of the water But there are other graces that are best seen when God withdraws and when God is absent Faith in God And love to God especially Faith in God For Faith works best when it works all alone without the Auxiliaries of Comfort 'T is no great matter for a Wife to believe her Husband's Love when he is at home and daily and hourly shewing kindness But when he is abroad and absent and she hears not from him then to believe his Love is somewhat So to believe the Love of God towards us when he is present is no great matter though it 's good But when God is gone when God is absent then to believe his love is Faith worthy of God as Parisiensis speaks Thus also our love unto God doth and will appear For when God is present with us and shines upon us then we see Gods love to us but when God is absent from us by our longings after him then we see our love unto God Now I say What if God will to draw out all our graces and that he may see the workings of our graces Faith and Love especially what if he will withdraw and absent himself from his people for a time But 5. What if God will for the good and benefit of others withdraw and absent himself and depart from his own people In the Book of the Cant. we find that when Christ doth withdraw from his Spouse and she could not find him Chap. 5.6 she searches after him enquires for him makes great complaint Then the Daughters of Israel say Whither is thy beloved gone O thou fairest among women whither is thy beloved turned aside that we may seek him with thee So long as he was present others were not drawn on for to seek him with her but now he is absent and she looks after him and complains for want of him now others are drawn to enquire after him And why so But to teach us thus much that God will so over-rule the desertions of his people that his with-drawment from them shall draw others to him And thus now you see there is reason and good reason why God should some times depart from forsake and be absent even from his own people for a time And that 's the first thing 2. Secondly The Saints and People of God are very sensible of his displeasure How long Lord They are most sensible of this they look upon it as a very tedious thing and m●st afflictive to lie under Gods departure How long Lord Words of Expostulation note Affection especially if they come with an Ingemination And so you have it in the 13 Psalm How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me how long shall I take counsel in my soul Four how longs How long how long how long how long 'T is a very tedious thing and most afflictive to the people of God to lie under Gods departures It was so with Christ ye may measure the hearts of the Saints by the heart of Christ The First in every kind is the Rule of the rest Christ was the first of Saints Now though our Saviour Christ met with many afflictions and troubles in his death you shall find he is most sensible of Gods departure My God my God why hast thou forsaken me He doth not say O my Disciples why have you left me and why have you forsaken me but my God my God why hast thou forsaken me That is not the greatest affliction that weak men account the greatest That is not the greatest burthen that a weak man accounts the greatest but that which a strong man accounts the greatest burthen is the greatest burthen Why now that the Rock of Ages Christ himself should complain under this of Gods forsaking what doth this argue When Paul cries out Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Will you not conclude thereby that the body of Death was a great burthen that the sin of our Nature was a great burthen So when Christ himself shall cry out and complain of Gods forsaking and departing will you not conclude then surely this is a burthen indeed This is that the Saints and People of God are the most sensible of 2. It is the property of a gracious soul to be most affected with the inside and the spiritual part of mercies and of deliverances Though God give them outward deliverances they are not so much affected with the outward part as with the inside and the spiritual part of the deliverance And therefore in Mich. 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth Iniquity and passeth by the Transgression of the remnant of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy It was an outward deliverance that God gave them but the Church is most affected with the spiritual part on 't And as they are most affected with the spiritual part of a Deliverance so they are alwaies most affected with the inward and the spiritual part of an Affliction What 's that The Anger of God the Displeasure of God the Desertion of God the Departing of God This is the thing that the Saints therefore are the most affected with and the most sensible of 3. That is most afflictive to a gracious soul which is most contrary to him and to his will All that is affliction which is contrary to ones will It was no great matter in it self that Mordecai did not pull off his Hat and bow his Knee to Haman it was no great affliction in it self but it was contrary to Haman's pride and that 's an affliction that is contrary to ones will Now what is the will and what is the desire of the Saints but the presence of God That they may ever be at their Fathers Knee that they may ever be in his Arms and held in the Im●races

Child yet he did not pray for a Child for he could not believe that he should have a Child so that God gave him a Child in a way of preventing mercy and yet it was in answer of prayer too So here in the Text Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not with-holden the request of his lips for thou hast prevented him with the blessings of thy goodness Why why although the mercy received may be an answer of prayer in regard of the body of it yet it may come in a way of preventing love as to the moreness of it so it was with David so with Hezekiah and so with Zacharias That 's a fourth thing God doth sometimes prevent as in reference to our prayer giving in mercy beyond all our prayers 5. And then fifthly As God doth prevent us in reference to our prayers so in reference to our believing thoughts or expectances When the Lord turned the Captivity of Zion we were like them that dreamed why were we as them that dreamed Why truly we never looked for it nor expected it we did not think on it it was beyond all our expectations Thus God doth prevent us sometimes in reference to our expectances to our faith and to our thoughts 6. As he thus prevents us with his mercy in reference to our thoughts and faith and expectance so in reference to his own promises and the conditions thereof if I promise a man a kindness upon a condition and do that kindness for him when he hath not performed the condition then I prevent him with kindness Now the Lord hath promised many a mercy upon a condition and yet given the mercy when we have not performed the condition I said sayes David I would confess my sin and thou Lord forgavest my iniquity Lord thou hast made a promise of forgiveness upon condition of our confession and humiliation I did not go so far I did but say I would confess my sin and thou prevented'st me with thy forgiving Love Thus now you see how and in what respects God doth prevent us with his mercy he doth prevent us with his mercy in reference to our deservings in reference to his own proceedings of Common Providence in reference to all our Prayers in reference to our Faith and Expectance in reference to our Preparedness and in reference to his own Promises and the conditions thereof That 's the Second III. Well but then thirdly what are those choice blessings wherewith God will prevent his people What not But the greater the blessing is the more it is steeped in Preventing Love There are outward blessings and there are inward blessings there are temporal blessings and there are eternal blessings Now though the preventing love of God doth shine forth in all yet the greater the blessing or the mercy is the more it is irradiated with the beams of preventing Love Will ye instance 1. First Will ye instance in the great matter of our Redemption What greater mercy or blessing then our Redemption in and by Jesus Christ that 's of Grace in whom we have Redemption through his blood the forgiveness of our sins according to the riches of his Grace And when Christ came into the World in reference to our Redemption to take our Nature upon him do but see what a pack of wicked men were then extant upon the ground in the Luke 3.1 Now in the fifteenth year of the Reign of Tiberius Caesar there s one Pontius Pilate being Governour of Judea there 's another and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee there 's another and his Brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea Annas and Caiphas being High-Priests the Word of God came unto John the Son of Zacharias in the Wilderness And why was Christ born in such a time as this and among such Company but all to shew that the work of our Redemption was to be carried on in a way of Preventing Love 2. Or will ye instance in the matter of our Conversion What greater mercy or blessing then our Conversion yet look into the 33 of Job and you shall see how that Mercy comes swimming down the stream of preventing Love God speaketh once yea twice and yet man perceiveth it not What then In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumbrings upon the bed then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction 3. Or will ye instance in the matter of our Justification What greater mercy or blessing then that of our Justification Yet this also comes swimming down the stream of preventing Love for he justifies the ungodly And in the 4th of the Romans it is said of Abraham that he was justified not yet circumcised for we say that faith was reckoned to him for righteousness vers 9. How was it then reckoned When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision not in circumcision but in uncircumcision Why why not in circumcision but in his uncircumcision but to shew that this mercy of Justification must be carryed on in a way of preventing Love 4. Or will ye instance in the matter of our Sanctification What greater mercy then to be truly sanctified Yet this also comes swimming down the stream of preventing Love I will wash ye with clean water Such and such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified in the Name of the Lord. This also in a way of preventing Love 5. Will ye instance in the matter of Consolation What greater mercy t●en for a poore drooping soul to be truly comforted This also comes in a way of preventing Love e're ever I was aware before I was aware saith the Spouse My Soul was as the Charets of Aminadab I was unwilling to receive the Promise my Soul refused to be comforted but e're ever I was aware my Soul was as the Charets of a willing people of Aminadab that is of a willing people When Christ was dead how sad was Mary Christ did but come unto her and say Mary and she was comforted 6. Will ye instance in the Revelation of the truths of the times What greater blessing then for a man to be well acquainted with the truth of the times in opposition to Antichrist Now sayes John in the 1 of Revel when these truths were given out I heard a voice behind me before I was aware God prevented me acquainting me with these truths of the Revelations 7. Or will ye instance in outward blessings or mercies then I 'le appeal to you In the great turnings of your lives hath not God prevented you with his blessings It is true we are to trade in a way of Prayer to gain outward blessings and mercies but I say when ever did you meet with any great turn of your life but it was cast by preventing Love before Prayer came in So that do ye ask what are those choise blessings wherewith God will prevent his people You see here what they are So I have done with the third thing