sprinkled, if they have life; and in this new covenant they shall all know the Lord, &c. And by this blood of Jesus, his life in the new covenant, they are justified, in whom we have redemption and the forgiveness of sins; and Christ hath purchased his church with his own blood, his life, and their faith doth stand in his blood, which is the life of the Lamb. Therefore, the apostle saith, if ye walk in the light, as he is in the light, then have ye fellowship one with another, and the blood of Christ Jesus, his Son, cleanses from all sin.'

So it is not the blood of bulls, goats, or the blood of other creatures, which was the blood of the old covenant, nor their outward washings in it, that takes away sin; but the blood of the new covenant, which is the blood of the Lamb without blemish, Christ Jesus, the blood of the Lamb, the life of the Lamb, with which Christ, the high priest sanctifies, cleanses and redeems; and he washes with his own life, his blood; yea, he sprinkles the altar of their hearts, that they may offer a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruits of our lips giving thanks to his name.

So you are bought and purchased with the blood of Christ, the life of Christ, who has died for you, and risen for your justification, that all might live to him, and not to themselves, and glorify him in body, soul and spirit, which are his, who hath purchased you with his blood, his life; so worthy is the Lamb to receive glory and honour, who hath redeemed us to God by his blood, and hath washed us from our sins by his blood, and our garments are made white by the blood of the Lamb. So the saints do overcome by the blood, the life of the Lamb, who was dead, and is alive again, and lives for evermore.

So the blood of the old covenant was the life of lambs and beasts without blemish, by which all things were cleansed and sprinkled withal, yea, the tabernacle and the vessels, priests and people with the blood, the life of the clean beasts without blemish, in the old covenant, and Old Testament; but the blood of the new covenant, and of the New Testament, his blood is the life of the Lamb, Christ Jesus, the Son of God without blemish, spot, sin, or guile; a Lamb prepared before the foundation of the world was: so it is by the life, the blood of this spotless Lamb, that all his people are sanctified and redeemed to God, and sprinkled and washed, their hearts, consciences, tabernacles, vessels and altar in the tabernacle, and the fat or grossness consumed by his fire on the altar, by which they come to be a royal priesthood, offering up spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.

So the blood of the new and everlasting covenant is the life of Christ, which all the believers in the light are to walk in, and to be cleansed by, giving all honour and glory to God, and the Lamb, who hath redeemed us to God by his blood. G. F.

Swarthmore, the 7th of the 12th month, 1678.

AND whereas, many lies and false reports have been cast upon us by both priests and professors, that we do slight, deny, and undervalue, the blood of Jesus, who do value and esteem it more than any of them; for how can they value or esteem the blood of Christ that plead for sin a term of life, which makes for the popish doctrine of purgatory when they are dead, who are not washed, and their garments made white, nor cleansed from all sin, and redeemed to God by the blood of the Lamb, from their vain conversations and the tradition of their forefathers, neither have they so much faith in the blood of Christ the Lamb, ordained before the foundation of the world, that it will so wash them, and cleanse them, and redeem them, or make them as clean as their father Adam, and mother Eve was before they fell, and that they might come to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that never fell.

And it may be seen, it was the life of the clean beasts from Abel's time, that was offered and accepted of by God to cleanse withal, and therefore, they were not to eat the blood, for the blood, the life of the beasts was offered to God for an atonement upon his altar: so it is clear it was the blood, the life of the beasts which God required to make atonement with upon his altar for their souls: for the Lord saith, ‘the life of all flesh is the blood,' and whosoever did eat it was to be cut off; for the life of all flesh, the blood, was to be offered upon his altar to make atonement for their soul, as the Lord required.

Thus the first covenant was dedicated with the blood, which was the life of all flesh: but the new and second covenant is dedicated with the blood, the life of Christ Jesus, which is the alone atonement unto God, by which all his people are washed, sanctified, cleansed, and redeemed to God; so that their faith and testimony stands in the blood of the Lamb, the life of Christ Jesus, foreordained before the world was, a Lamb without blemish, guile, spot, or sin, which cleanses from all spots and sin, and washes and makes clean the garments. And Christ abolishes both the blood of beasts, and the altar, and all the traditions in the law, and their offerings and sacrifices before the law, by the offering up of himself once in the end of the world, a Lamb ordained before the foundation of the world, therefore must every one's faith and testimony stand in him and his blood. And who are the true' witnesses of this, but they only that have drunk of the blood of Christ, and eaten of his flesh, which he gives for the life of the world, not such as talk of it only?

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God; the same was in the beginning with God; all things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made; and the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father.' And

Christ said, 'I have glorified thee on earth, I have finished thy work which thou gavest me to do: and now, O Father, glorify thou me with thy own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.' John xvii. So Christ, a Lamb, without spot or blemish, who redeems us from our vain conversations and traditions of our forefathers, the Jews, who verily was ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these last times,' &c. 1 Pet. i. 19, 20. ' who hath put an end to all the Jews' offerings and sacrifices,' as the apostle saith; for in the end of the world he hath appeared, (to wit, Christ,) to put away sin with the sacrifice of himself. For if the blood of bulls and goats, which is their life, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh in the old covenant, how much more shall the blood of Christ, his life, who hath through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your consciences from dead works, to serve the living God;' so for this cause, he is the Mediator of the New Testament, which is dedicated with his blood, his life: so Jesus Christ was surely of a better testament than that of the Jews.' Heb. vii. 22. For he, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man.' Heb. ii. and lighteth every man that cometh into the world; and saith, I am the light of the world, and he that follows me shall not abide in darkness, but shall have the light of life.' And the apostle told the Ephesians, that he was 'to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which since the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.' Ephes. iii. And he that hath the Son of God, hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life.'

Here it is clear Christ is the first and the last, the beginning and ending, and over all in the glory that he had with the Father before the world began; therefore, let your faith stand in Christ, and his blood, his life, by which ye are washed, sanctified, purged, cleansed and redeemed to God, that God, through Christ your Mediator, may have the glory in all your hearts.

The blood of the clean beasts, which was the life of the beasts, with it did the high priest enter once a year into the holy place made with hands, to make an atonement for himself and the people of the Jews in the old covenant; but Christ, our high priest entered into heaven by his own blood, his own life, to make an atonement for us; he tasted death for every man, and was a propitiation for the sins of the whole world, who was dead, and is alive again, and lives for evermore; so he ever liveth to make intercession for his people, and so his people have boldness to enter into the holiest, to wit, into heaven, by the blood, the life of Jesus, by a new and living way, which is consecrated for us through the vail, that is to say, his flesh; glory to God forever, through Jesus the Saviour, and Christ the anointed of God. G. F.

A Demonstration to the Christians in Name, Without the Nature of it.

How they hinder the Conversion of the Jews. With an exhortation to them to come into the true Nature and Life of Christianity, which the Apostles and Primitive Christians were in, who converted many of the Jews. Which Nature and Life of Christianity is herein declared of according to the Scriptures, and by which alone the Jews may now be convinced and converted also.-By G. F.

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THE usual saying of the Jews is, when the Messiah is come, he will make all things new,' according to Isa. xliii. which also is testified unto in 2 Cor. v. 17. and Rev. xxi. 5.

But the Jews say, most of Christendom (so called,) are in the old things, like the heathens, as their life and practice doth demonstrate, whose conversations, many of them, are like unto Sodom and Egypt.'

And therefore they say, 'how do the christians think we should turn to them, whose conversations, many of them, are in cursing, swearing, drunkenness, and uncleanness, which the law of Moses forbids, and the prophets; by which law of God, we Jews are not to swear by the creatures, but by the Lord; though many of our forefathers did swear by the temple and other things, yet it was when they were degenerated from the law of God, and then some of them sware by Baal, and other heathenish gods, all which was forbidden by the law of God and his prophets and therefore, seeing many of them that call themselves christians, swear wickedly, and vainly, and by creatures, and books, the Old and New Testament, which the law of God forbids; and therefore, as our prophets say, when the Messiah is come, he will make all things new in the new covenant, which is not according to the old and if, therefore, we now should turn to you christians, we should turn again but into the practice of those old things which our law forbids; for the new covenant, which God promised to make, doth exceed the old and therefore, if we should turn to you christians, and practise those things which the heathens do below the old covenant, we should bring ourselves under the judgment of the law of God and the prophets, and beneath what was commanded in our law.'

And therefore, all christians are to lay away all swearing and oaths, as Christ commanded, and cursing, drunkenness, fornication and uncleanness: for all christians' conversations should preach, as well as their tongues, a new life, and a new heart in the new covenant.

For, Christ said, 'except your righteousness (to wit, the christians, in the new covenant,) doth exceed the righteousness of the scribes and

pharisees,' (in the old covenant,) Christ, the Messiah saith, 'ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God.'

But, if the christians' unrighteousness and ungodliness, their swearing, cursing, whoring, and profaneness, &c. doth exceed the transgressing Jews, and many of the heathens, how can they then think to enter into the kingdom of God, seeing if they do enter into the kingdom of God their righteousness must exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees, the Jews in the old covenant.

And therefore, this is a great stumbling to the Jews, which profess the old covenant, and hold that the Messiah is not come, because they seeing the bad lives and conversations of the christians, who profess the Messiah is come, and that they are children of the new covenant and yet live in the old nature and old things, like the heathen, as they manifest in their lives and conversations, below the Jews law in the old covenant.

For they should shew forth a new life, and a new spirit, according as God hath promised, and as the Jews believe, that when the Messiah is come, he would make all things new, as in Jer. xxxi. and Ezek. xi. 19. it is said, 'I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take away the stony heart.'

But do not we see this stony heart, and old spirit, in most of them called christians?

And therefore, if the Messiah be come, as you profess, you are in the transgression of the new covenant, as our forefathers were of the old covenant: and you cannot find fault with us,' say the Jews.

And in Ezek. xviii. 31. they were commanded to cast away their transgressions, that they might have a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, saith the Lord? for I have no pleasure, saith he, in the death of him that dieth.'

And therefore, if the Jews remain in this old transgressing heart and spirit, in the death, from Christ the life, in which God hath no pleasure; should not the christians, which profess the new covenant, cast away their transgressions, swearing, whoring, lying, and drunkenness, theft, murder, and all uncleanness; that they might put off the old man with his deeds, and put on the new man, and so have a new heart and spirit, and a new life, serving God in the new and living way, manifesting that they are children of the new covenant, and not of the old, and so shew forth the fruits of the Messiah's being come, and of their being in the new covenant in their lives and conversations: for the apostle said, 'their conversation was in heaven.' And now let Christendom see where their conversation is now, and hath been these many hundred years.

And also, in Exek. xxxvi. he there speaks of the blessings of the kingdom of Christ, by way of prophecy, where the Lord saith, he will make