is able to give forth his beams of light unto all the world But you will say How may it appear that Christ will be as gracious and communicative in his love unto us now in heaven as he would have been had he been here on earth You know what he said when he was here on earth And let him that is athirst come John 7.37 In the last day the great day of the Feast Jesus stood and cryed saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink Now he is in heaven look into the Book of the Revelation which he speaks from heaven he speaks more than that And let him that is athirst come there 's that And whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely here 's more now he is in heaven And I pray when did our Lord and Saviour Christ wash his Disciples feet Give the glorious testimony of his condescending love unto his Dâ—sciples 〈◊〉 when he was going to the Father Jesus knowing 〈◊〉 that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God he arose from Supper and laid aside his Garments and took a Towel and girded himself Knowing that all power was given into his hand he gives that reason He did thus condescend in this way of love knowing that all power was given into his hand Now that he is in heaven all power is given into his hand and therefore now certainly he will be as gracious and communicative in his love and goodnesse as if he had been here on earth and rather over and above Surely therefore it is our work and our duty to rejoyce in this Exaltment of Christ though in some respects it may be to our debasement or present losse But then Thirdly How shall we do this Why true love to the Person of Christ will enable us to do this It will enable us to rejoyce in the Personall Exaltment of Christ though it may be to our own present losse and abasement It is a sweet thing to the Lover to suffer for the Person loved that is where love fixt upon the Person and not upon the benefits If love be fixt upon the benefit it is not so but if upon the person it is so So if our love be fixt upon the Person of Christ this love will enable us to rejoyce in the Exaltment of Christ though it be in our own debasement Christ rejoyced in our Exaltment though it was to his own debasement why because he loved our persons who loved us and gave himself for us So that true love unto the Person of Christ will make us rejoyce in his Exaltment though it may be to our own present debasement You will say then How few are there that do love Christ indeed Chrâ—st is hardâ—y loved for Christ Christ himself is hardly lâ—ved fâ—r himself To love the Person of Christ how few are there that do that And so I come unto the fourth thing Fourthly 'T is possible that Christ's own Disciples may be wanting in their love to Christ's Person T is somewhat strange this If a Prince or Noble-man should take a poor woman a Beggar off the Dunghill and marry her it would be somewhat strange that she should not love his Person If he should not love her you would not think it so strange If Boaz should not love Ruth you would not have thought it so strange but that Ruth should not love the Person of Boaz this may seem strange So now such beggars were we when the Lord came and took us off the Dunghill and said Now is a time of love If the Lord Jesus should not love our persons it would not seem so strange but that we should be wanting in our love to the Person of Christ this is strange yea Friends 't is possible that Christ's own Disciples may be wanting in their love to the Person of Christ They may be wanting in the manner of their love to Christ's Person They may be wanting in the measure of their love to Christ's Person If ye loved me saith he and yet they left all to follow him possibly then the best Disciples of Christ the best men may be wanting in their love to the Person of Christ To make this out a little to you 1. First of all The more we love the Person of Christ the more diligent and observant we shall be in keeping Christ's Commandments that are properly his If ye love me keep my Commandments Why now how many are there of God's own people that are too negligent in keeping Christ's Commandments the Commandment of Love the Institutions of Christ and why so but because they are wanting in their love to the Person of Christ If ye love me keep my Commandments 2. If a good man may be wanting in his zeal for for Christ possibly he may be wanting in his Love tâ— Christ's Person what is zeal but fired love inflamâ— love angered love Now possibly a man that love Christ in truth may be wanting in his zeal Old Eâ— loved God without all doubt and yet he was wanting in his love to God Peter loved Christ Thou knowest that I love thee and yet wanting in his love by denying of Christ Good men may be wanting in theiâ— zeal for Christ why but because they are wanting in their love to the Person of Christ 3. The more a man loves the Person of Christ thâ— more he doth love the Servants the people of Christ It was a good speech of Jerom when there was 〈◊〉 difference between Austin and him I love Chriâ—â— dwelling in Austin even at that very time when there was a difference betwen them And certainly if we love the Person of Christ we shall love Christ dwelling in the Saints But now don 't we find by wofull experience that even in good people their love to the Saints is wanting why but because their love to the Person of Christ is wanting 4. The more a man doth love the Person of Christ the more he will be speaking and thinking of him Love is busied and exercised in thoughtfulnesse about the person loved and in speech If a man love a Person or Thing he will be thinking much on 't and speaking much on 't But now by our experience cannot we go a whole day together and have no thought of Christ Don't we sit down at our meals frequently and not one word of Christ Good Conference where art thou Good and holy Conference where art Come to Professors Tables one Dish after another one Cup of Wine after another but nothing of Christ It 's gone it 's gone what 's the reason but because we are wanting in our love to the Person of Christ Certainly if we were not wanting in our love to the Person of Christ we would be thinking more of him and speaking more of him 5. The more we love the Person of Christ the more we shall desire to be dissolved that we may be with
the blood of Jesus If you look therefore into the Old Testament you shall find that they sprinkled blood upon a fourfold account To confirm and ratifie the Covenant between God and them To make an Attonement for their sin For the sanctification and purification of their Persons and things And for the preservation of their Persons Accordingly therefore saith the Apostle Heb. 9.19 the Book was sprinkled so in the 24. of Exod. the meaning of it is given v. 7. And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the audience of the people and they said all that the Lord hath said we will do and be obedient and Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said behold the blood of the Covenant and the 9th of the Heb. tells us That he sprinkled the Book it self And why so But to shew thus much That it is the Blood of Jesus that doth ratifie and confirm the Covenant now made between God and us as at large in that 9th of the Hebrews 2. Then also in those times of the Old Testament they sprinkled blood to make an Attonement for the sins of the people as you have it in the 4th of Levit. 6 and the 20. verses And the Priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord before the Vail of the Sanctuary The Mercy Seat and the Altar were sprinkled the reason is given at the 20 v. And he shall do with the Bullock as he did with the Bullock for a fin offering so shall he do with this And The Priest shall make an Attonement for them and it shall be forgiven them And why so But to shew that it is the blood of Jesus whereby we have Attonement as in Rom. 5.11 3. Again In the times of the Old Testament they did sprinkle blood for the purification of mens Persons and of Things As you have it in Levit. 14. v. 7. And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the Leprosie seven times and shall pronounce him clean And why so But to shew that it is the blood of Jesus that doth cleanse us from all Iniquity as in the first Epist of John Chap. 1. 4. Then in those times they did sprinkle mens persons for preservation from the destroying Angel when the destroying Angel came to destroy the Aegyptians the posts of the Israelites were sprinkled that they might be preserved And why But to shew that it is by the blood of Jesus that we are preserved from the destroyer In the 1. v. of the 1. of Jude it s said Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and Brother of James to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ or preserved by Jesus Christ and Christ our passover is sacrificed for us saith the Apostle to the Corinthians So that thus now you see briefly what were the grounds and reasons of their sprinkling blood in the times of the Old Testament and how all this is applicable to the Blood of Jesus And if you look wishly into the Scripture and compare things with things you shall find that Moses in the times of the Old Testament did divide the blood of the Covenant part whereof was sprinkled upon the Altar poured down at the foot of the Altar to oblige God to the Covenant And part of it was sprinkled upon the people to confirm their souls in the certainty of the Covenant and to oblige them to observe and keep Covenant with God So with the blood of Christ And therefore when our Lord and Saviour Christ speaks at the Lords Supper he saith This Cup is the New Testament in my blood shed for many for the Remission of sins The first part part of the words This Cup is the New Testament in my blood hath regard to us shewing that our souls are to be confirmed in this that we are in covenant with God The second part of the words shed for many for the remission of sins relates unto God shewing the use of Christs blood to satisfie God for our sins and to obtain our Remission And if you would know What is the use of this Sprinkling I say Sprinkling of the Blood notes Application What are we the better for the Blood of Christ if it be not applyed to us and sprinkled on us There are two great Attributes of God that we have to deal withal in the great matter of our Redemption The Justice of God and the Mercy of God That the Justice of God might be be satisfied Christ was made a sacrifice on the Cross and his blood shed on Earth that the favour of God might be obtained Christ carries as our great High-priest his Blood the vertue of it into Heaven and sprinkles the Mercy-seat seven times And that we might be sanctified and reconcil'd to God this Blood is sprinkled upon us too As it 's sprinkled upon the Altar and the Mercy-seat that God might be reconciled to us so 't is sprinkled upon us that we might be sanctified reconciled to God And that thereby we might be assur'd that God is in covenant with us As when the Jews were sprinkled with blood the Priest saying This is the Blood of the covenant they were assured thereby that they were in covenant with God So when we are sprinkled with the blood of Jesus we are or may be assured that we are in the covenant of Grace with God And thus now you see what this Blood of Sprinkling is upon what account 't is sprinkled and what is the use of the sprinkling thereof And so I have done with the first General Secondly This Blood of Sprinkling which is the blood of Iesus is a speaking Blood and speaketh better things than that of Aâ—el or than Abel It speaketh in regard of its continual and perpetual Virtue and Operation But here are two things First What this Blood of Sprinkling speaketh 2. How and in what sense it speaketh better things than that of Abel First What this Blood of Sprinkling speaketh 1. It speaketh a necessity of satisfaction for Without blood there is no Remission 2. It speaketh the Righteousness of God If God have burnt down such a City as this to declare his Righteousness how much more doth the shedding of the blood of Iesus declare the Righteousness of God To declare I say his Righteousness saith the Apostle in Rom. 3. 3. It speaketh the highest Obedience that ever the Sun saw That the Son of God should be obedient unto death laying down his blood is the highest Obedience As the disobedience of the first Adam was in the matter of the Tree so the obedience of the second Adam was in the matter of the Tree Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the Tree saith the Apostle As the disobedience of the first Adam was in the transgressing a positive commandment which was the symbol of obedience to the whole Moral Law So
is not yet written in my heart O make good thy Covenant and write thy Law in my heart And for you that are Saints this Doctrine looks upon you and it saith thus If Christ be the Mediator of the New Covenant and your Mediator that God hath provided for you then go away and be ashamed of your sins and of all your doings the pardon whereof requires such a Mediator and the blood of the Mediator Then shall ye be ashamed saith the Lord When I am pacified towards you If Christ be your Mediator and God be pacified Oh then be you ashamed 2. And to you it speaks thus If the Lord Jesus Christ be the Mediator of this New Covenant your Mediator and mediates for you then why should not you appeare for Christ on Earth upon all occasions Shall Christ interpose with the Father and appeare for you and mediate for you in Heaven upon all occasions and will not you appear for Christ on Earth What Christ appeare for you in Heaven and mediate for you in Heaven and will not you appeare for Christ on Earth Yea unto you it saith Why should not you all goe away with your hearts full of Love and Thankfulnesse both to God the Father and to Jesus Christ If you were going to the Prison for a Debt and a man should meet you and undertake to be your Surety and pay your Debt you would love him as long as you lived Here is the case we were all going to Prison Christ comes undertakes to be our Surety payes our Debt then will you not love Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant Will you not love him and be thankfull to him and to God the Father For though the performance of this Mediation be Christs the Contrivance is God the Fathers God the Father did contrive this Covenant and God the Father did send Christ this Mediator I have given thee for a Covenant saith the Father and saith Christ Lo I come to do Thy Will. Friends it was the will of God the Father that Jesus should be the Mediator of this New Covenant Oh the freenesse of the Grace of God the Father He was the person offended and yet that He himself should find out such a Mediator of such a Covenant what Grace is here Now therefore blessed be God the Father for this Mediator let us all say and blessed be this Mediator JESVS who hath mediated us into this New Covenant Goe away I say you that are Saints with your hearts full of Love both unto God the Father who hath contrived this Mediation and unto JESVS who hath performed this Mediation And now let your hearts be confirmed let your Hope be confirmed let your Love be confirmed let your Joy be confirmed let your Thankfulnesse be confirmed let your Graces be confirmed A confirmed Covenant calls for confirmed Christians I have done I cannot say whom we should love most and be thankful most unto the Father or the Son but this I say love the Father with all your heart and be thankful to him in reference to his Contrivance love the Son with all your heart and be thankful to him in reference to his Performance for JESVS is the Mediator of the New Covenant And thus I have done with the second Doctrine namely that Jesus is the Mediator of the New Covenant The third follows and that is That now in these Gospel times we are not come to Moses the Mediator of the Old but unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament The Way and Spirit of the New Covenant or New Testament SERM. V. Hebr. 12.24 And to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant c. Doctr. 3. THe Third Observation follows which is this That in these Gospel-times we are not come to Moses the Mediator of the Old but unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant or the New Testament The latter part of the Doctrine you have in the words of the Text and the former part in the Conâ—ext for saith the Apostle Ye are not come unto the Mount that might be touched to Mount Sinai But ye â—re come unto Mount Sion and ye are come unto Jesus â—he Mediator of the New Covenant So that now in â—hese Gospel-times we are not come to Moses the â—ediator of the Old Covenant but to Jesus the â—ediator of the New Testament For the opening and prosecuting whereof First We must inquire What is here meant by â—oming unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant in opposition to Moses the Mediator of the Old Covenant Secondly Whether it be possible for a man thaâ— doth profess Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant to have recourse unto Moses the Mediator of the Old Covenant or the Old Testament That is Whether a Man may possibly be Legal and Mosaical in these Gospel-times Thirdly When so Fourthly The Danger of it and Fifthly What we should do that we may stand cleaâ— from Moses the Mediator of the Old Covenant anâ— come fully off unto Jesus the Mediator of the New That we may walk wiâ—h a Gospel not a Legal Spirit and be found in a Gospel not a Legal Way in these Gospel-times First of all If you ask What is here meant by coming unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant in opposition to Moses I answer in the general It doth signifie and note out that Evangelical and Gospel-state that we are now brought unto by Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament in opposition to the Legal state thaâ— they were in in the dayes and times of the Old Testament But because this is general and commoâ— unto that which goes before therefore you must knoâ— more particularly That a Man is said to come unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament in opposition to Moses when now in these Gospel-times upon all occasionâ— he hath recourse unto Jesus as in the times of thâ— Old Testament upon all occasions they had recourâ— unto Moses As now for Example In the times of the Old Testament they came 〈◊〉 Moses for the Law under God and they receivâ— the Law from his mouth What saith Moses was the saying then So now in these times of the Gospel we are to have recourse unto Jesus and to receive the Law at his mouth What saith Jesus And therefore saith our Saviour It hath been said unto you Thou shalt not kill and Thou shalt not commit Adultery But I say unto you and I say unto you Why What because as the Socinians would Christ made any addition to the Law No but because now as for other Reasons we are to receive the Law from his mouth from the mouth of Jesus And as in the times of the Old Testament they had recourse to Moses for their Church and their Church State He it was that did give the Tabernacle under God and the way of the Tabernacle So now in the times of the New Testament we are to have recourse to Jesus What saith Jesus to a Church-way Not What
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 Psalâ— of David when Nathan the Prophet came unto him that was after Nathan came to him And what diâ— 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 knâ—w â—lso that you must come for sprinkling with the great'st sense of unworthines that may be Iâ— you look into the 19th of Numb you shall find that he that sprinkâ—â—d the blood was to be unclean until the evening v. 7. Then the Priest shall wash his cloaths and he shâ—l bâ— tâ—e his flesh in Wâ—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 shâ—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 unâ—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