 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
 | Henry D. Brown - Faith - 1879 - 118 pages
...paid, " the precious blood of Christ." Let us consider some of the chief blessings he obtains through " the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel." First, there is REDEMPTION. " Wehave redemption through His blood" (Col. i. 14), and oh, what a redemption... | |
 | James DeKoven - Sermons, American - 1893 - 472 pages
...which is the mother of us all ; and in the midst of it is Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant, and the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel. Nay, to the Christian, the things which we most shrink from and avoid are fullest of this hidden glory.... | |
 | Daniel Smart - Baptists - 1881 - 272 pages
...children, and women ; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark ; " and what is the mark but the blood of sprinkling, " which speaketh better things than that of Abel." Well, then, secondly, not only is there an appeasing of God's anger (" truth and mercy have met together"),... | |
 | John Edward Field - Bible - 1882 - 730 pages
...aloud for vengeance against sin ; but they are also united with the Mediator of the New Testament, and the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel ; for the word that He speaketh is, This is My Blood of the New Testament which is shed for the remission... | |
 | George Gould - 1883 - 454 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. xii. 22—24). " Wherefore ... receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved," we are bound to "... | |
 | Thomas Dundas Harford Battersby - Sermons, English - 1884 - 308 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. See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh" (Heb. xii. 22-25). It is through Christ's resurrection that... | |
 | John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale - Bible - 1884 - 650 pages
...inquisition for blood, He remembereth them," to be compared, in this sense, with that saying of S. Paul's, " The blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel :" " and forgetteth not the complaint of the Poor :" " FATHER, . forgive them, for they know not what... | |
 | Marcus Rainsford - Bible - 1885 - 288 pages
...blood and consummated righteousness. Beloved, in coming to Him who ever liveth, we are " coming to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel." It was shed here below ; it is sprinkled above I You remember how God said to Cain, " Thy brother's... | |
 | Thomas William Thomas - Christian life - 1885 - 238 pages
...of departing saints. Four in Widnes, Lancashire, I think of with special joy. They all had come to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel, and they all died rejoicing in the consciousness of His Personal Presence, whose glory seemed to fill... | |
 | Pope Leo I - Incarnation - 1886 - 300 pages
...connected with I Cor. v. 7, and so testifies to Christ as the Peace-offering of the New Covenant, and to " the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel," Heb. xii. 24. " The general idea of propitiation underlay the Paschal offering ; yet the offering itself... | |
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