 Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect : and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant;...  Journals and letters, ed. by S. Wilberforce - Page 89by Henry Martyn - 1837Full view - About this book
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1864 - 703 pages
...appear in the presence of God for us, not with the blood of bulls and of goats, but with his own blood, the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel. The Father beholds his hands and his feet, and is well pleased for his righteousness' sake, and says,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Bible - 1864 - 424 pages
...in heaven, and to God the Judge of all . . . and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel.' The tidings of this city of God were those which the Apostles carried first to their own nation, then... | |
 | Christian companionship - Devotional literature - 1865 - 240 pages
...sea." But who are they who are capable of appropriating this salvation ? We are indeed in presence of " the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel ;" but have we washed our robes therein? have we made them white? Let us examine this third point —... | |
 | Alexander Shiras - 1865 - 204 pages
...has come. The good things formerly just shadowed forth, we have in substance. " We are come .... to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel." To the promises of mercy and redemption, thus fulfilled in Jesus, I commend you. May you be persuaded... | |
 | Hugh Henry Snell - 1866 - 288 pages
...to God's faithfulness, the everlasting stability of our hope. The ark tells us of the mercy-seat and the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel. This is rest. The precious blood, presented for us before God, always THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. 87 tells... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1866 - 540 pages
...again, we read (Heb. xii. 24) that we are come " to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel " ; and the apostle Peter (1 Pet. 1, 2) speaks of the saints as elect, unto " the sprinkling of the... | |
 | Methodist preachers - 1866 - 338 pages
...soul upon that atoning sacrifice which I saw was made for my offences. I had nothing to trust in but the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel. But, " O the rapturous height Of that holy delight, Which I found in the life-giving blood ; Of my... | |
 | Samuel Colcord Bartlett - Religion - 1856 - 404 pages
...and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel." The apostle is here enumerating the inviting and attractive features of the Christian's present connections... | |
 | Catherine Marsh - 1867 - 616 pages
...kindred, and tongue, and T eople, and nation." That must include all heathen nations, as well as others. "The blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel," which cries from the ground for pardon for the earth on which it was shed, may sprinkle and plead for... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1867 - 890 pages
...and to the Spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Heb. zii. 24.) Сн. II. 1. TrojjiiTTTiimicn ка! TOÎS á/íooríais] in transgressions and tin».... | |
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