"And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood." - Revelation 19:13
Oh thou bleeding Lamb of God! didst thou thus appear to thy servant
John, to tell him, and the church through him, that thy priesthood and
thy sacrifice are of the same everlasting nature and efficacy as thy
person and thy finished work - "the same yesterday, and to-day, and
forever?" And didst thou thus manifest thyself by way of assuring thy
poor needy followers that thou delightest in thine office, and lovest
to be employed? Was it not, dearest Jesus, to this end, and as much in
effect, as if thou hadst said, see, I wear these priestly garments:
behold my vesture still fresh with the blood which I offered in the day
of my sacrifice on the cross, for my redeemed, and for whom I still
appear in the bloody robe, as a proof of the everlasting efficacy. For
whom, but for my people, do I wear this vesture? "My soul, art thou
looking now, with an eye of faith, within the veil? Hast thou a
blessing to ask at the court of heaven, this day? Fly then to Jesus.
Behold him still, as John beheld him, and hear what he saith. Remember,
his blood speaks; for so the Holy Ghost declares" - it speaks better
things than that of Abel;" for Abel's blood cried for vengeance. Jesus
pleads for mercy. And doth it not speak to God for pardon, and from God
in covenant promises of pardon? Oh the blessedness to behold Jesus
clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, in confirmation that "we have
redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the
riches of his grace."
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