The Blood Covenant

About this eBook

Author

Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1830-1903

Title

The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Blood -- Folklore

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48236

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48236

Release Date

February 11, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE BLOOD COVENANT
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.I. THE PRIMITIVE RITE ITSELF. — 1. SOURCES OF BIBLE STUDY. — 2. AN ANCIENT SEMITIC RITE. — 3. THE PRIMITIVE RITE IN AFRICA. — 4. TRACES OF THE RITE IN EUROPE. [63] — 5. WORLD-WIDE SWEEP OF THE RITE. — 6. LIGHT FROM THE CLASSICS. — 7. THE BOND OF THE COVENANT. — 8. THE RITE AND ITS TOKEN IN EGYPT. — 9. OTHER GLEAMS OF THE RITE.
5. 5.II. SUGGESTIONS AND PERVERSIONS OF THE RITE. — 1. SACREDNESS OF BLOOD AND OF THE HEART. — 2. VIVIFYING POWER OF BLOOD. — 3. A NEW NATURE THROUGH NEW BLOOD. — 4. LIFE FROM ANY BLOOD, AND BY A TOUCH. — 5. INSPIRATION THROUGH BLOOD. — 6. INTER-COMMUNION THROUGH BLOOD. — 7. SYMBOLIC SUBSTITUTES FOR BLOOD. — 8. BLOOD-COVENANT INVOLVINGS.
6. 6.III. INDICATIONS OF THE RITE IN THE BIBLE. — 1. LIMITATIONS OF INQUIRY. — 2. PRIMITIVE TEACHINGS OF BLOOD. — 3. THE BLOOD COVENANT IN CIRCUMCISION. — 4. THE BLOOD COVENANT TESTED. — 5. THE BLOOD COVENANT AND ITS TOKENS IN THE PASSOVER. — 6. THE BLOOD COVENANT AT SINAI. — 7. THE BLOOD COVENANT IN THE MOSAIC RITUAL. — 8. THE PRIMITIVE RITE ILLUSTRATED. — 9. THE BLOOD COVENANT IN THE GOSPELS. — 10. THE BLOOD COVENANT APPLIED.
7. 7.APPENDIX. — IMPORTANCE OF THIS RITE STRANGELY UNDERVALUED. — LIFE IN THE BLOOD, IN THE HEART, IN THE LIVER. — TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS. — THE BLOOD-RITE IN BURMAH. — BLOOD-STAINED TREE OF THE COVENANT. — BLOOD-DRINKING. — COVENANT-CUTTING. — BLOOD-BATHING. — BLOOD-RANSOMING. — THE COVENANT-REMINDER. — HINTS OF BLOOD-UNION.
8. 8.INDEXES. — TOPICAL INDEX. — SCRIPTURAL INDEX.
9. 9.BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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