Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: as the clay in the hand of the potter; yet he condescends to deal with us about our reconciliation and happiness in the way-of a covenant, that they which are saved may be the more comforted, and they which perish may be rendered the more inexcusable. The tenor of this covenant is,
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Salvation is the great promise of the covenant, believing in Christ the great condition of the covenant; now, this cup is the covenant, that is, it is the seal of the covenant. There seems to be an allusion to that solemnity, which we read of where Moses read the book of the covenant in the audience of the people, and the people declared their consent to it, saying,
All that the Lord hath said we will do, and will be obedient. And then Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it upon the people, (part of it having before been sprinkled upon the altar, ) and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. Thus, the covenant being made by sacrifice, and the blood of the sacrifice being sprinkled both upon the altar of God and upon the representatives of the people, both parties did, as it were, interchangeably put their hands and seals to the articles of agreement. So the blood of Christ having satisfied for the breach of the covenant of innocency, and purchased a new treaty, and being the sacrifice by which the covenant is made, is fitly called the blood of the covenant. Having sprinkled this blood upon the altar in his intercession, when by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, he doth in this sacrament sprinkle it upon the people; as the apostle explains this mystery?A bargain is a bargain, though it be not sealed, but the sealing is the ratification and perfection of it. The…
