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For, as I have hinted already, the high priests under the law took the blood of the sacrifices that were offered for sin, and brought it within the veil, and there sprinkled it before and upon the mercy-seat, and by it made intercession for the people to an additional way of saving them; the sum of which Paul thus applies to Christ when he saith, 'He can save, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession.
I am naturally very strong; yet I have been thoroughly shaken lately by an accumulation of trouble." "I presume that a constitution in the susceptible state in which mine at present is, would be especially liable to fall a victim to cholera, if it visited our district. And since its appearance near London, we may well besiege the Mercy-seat for our protection," said Mr.
As the mercy-seat covered the law deposited in the ark, so Christ covers the transgressions of his people; while Christ sits upon the mercy-seat, the law cannot rise up in judgment against them. Jennings. In Bunyan's edition this is called the 'new tabernacle, a typographical error which is corrected by restoring the true reading. Ed
Your sacred genealogies prove the fact; and if you could not establish it, the whole fabric of your faith falls to the ground. 'If I had no confidence in any Church, said Tancred, with agitation, 'I would fall down before God and beseech him to enlighten me; and, in this land, he added, in a tone of excitement, 'I cannot believe that the appeal to the Mercy-seat would be made in vain.
Even if there is no Jesus Christ, I have read about Him and heard about Him and pictured Him to myself, till, say what you will, I shall die kissing and embracing that Divine Image I have in my heart. Even if there is neither mercy-seat nor intercession in heaven, I shall henceforth pray without ceasing.
This throne is the seat of grace and mercy, and therefore it is called the mercy-seat and throne of grace. This throne turns all into grace, all into mercy; this throne makes all things work together for good.
There, in the thick darkness, unseen by mortals except for the one approach of the high- priest on the day of atonement, dwelt the 'glory' which made light in the darkness, and flashed on the gold which covered all things in the small shrine. Our lesson does not speak of cherubim or mercy-seat, but specifies only the ark of the testimony.
'Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy face. The light that streams from that countenance is the hiding-place for a poor man. These other metaphors may refer, perhaps, the one to the temple, and the other to the outstretched wings of the cherubim that shadowed the Mercy-seat.
'Don't call me that! I mean... For God's sake, can't you see I'm on the rack? 'I see it, I know it, I put and keep you there, my fingers are on the screws! said Attwater. 'Please God, I will bring a penitent this night before His throne. Come, come to the mercy-seat! He waits to be gracious, man waits to be gracious!
Let us rather pass into the 'glory-room' of the Soldiers' Home at the close of the evening Service. There is never a Sunday night without conversions. And they call it the glory-room because 'Heaven comes down their souls to greet, And glory crowns the mercy-seat.
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