> 1 which 1s for the adminiſtration of it the very beſt and laſt, in | As, which God bequeatheth Pardon, Reconciliation, Righteouſneſs, | Holineſs, Adoption and Heirſhip to aneternal Inheritance to pen1- 4 tent believing Sinners, e The Death of Chriſt himſelf God-Man, oj | the moſt excellent Sacrifice, without which there could be no re- £4” | miſſion, ver. 22. nor the Teſtament of God about 1t put in force, for which cauſe he was the Medtator of it, that they ſhould value of him ſo much the more for his Death, fulfilling therein all his Types, _ and reac! that wich was unattainable by theſe, bott. for their Fa- an thers and themiciyc*. f For the ſatisfying the Juſtice of God for 04 thic v ron? thutr Sins nad done vt, Paying that price without which =_ 1 fney could not be expiated, by which they were remiffible, and Its , touph duly quaiited, actually fozpiven, even the Sins of thoſe who Fo | vere unecr the Moluncal-admniftratio:: of the Coyenant; 4.zor,
z 1n that time, had their y Parluned by Vertue of the Death of Chritt to come.
ſhadowed by thute Sacricices ty pi:ying him and his Dcath in their
own times : What tie Death of Beaſts or Birds could not do for them, he did, delivering them from the guilt and puniſkment of their Tranſgreſſions, under which othcriviſe they mult have periſted tor ever; this Peter publiſheth, 4&s x5. 11, This Veriue of Chritt's Death 15 not mentioned exclutive of New-Teſtament-tins, tins re- mitted by 1t ; but it itdid expiate thoſe old ones. reaehin? js much backward, even to 4aromn, - it will much more expiate thoſe under the New Teſtament to Penitent, Belicvins, Pravins Sinner: tor it, as thoſe Old-Tetftament-trantsreof-:rs Kere. F Suck 35 '@ God's call repent and beiirve on the Lord Jefus, that Anzel of the Covenant, then revealed to them, and enter into Covenant witi: him, Exod, 23. 20, to 24. compare 1 CF, 10.3, 4, 5. and
45, 45,47. Such as by 1t have Sins exyated, -Conſcicncces nuroud to as to have a titic to, and titnets by the. work of thc Soirit tor the Heavenly Canaan, Rom. 4. 16,24, 25. May be put jnto the paeffi- on of that eternal Inheritance made over to tiie,n by Promiſ>, and which the Spirit gave them an earneft of here, Chap. 12, 1
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neceſfity || be the death of the tetlator 7.
h For, gives the reaton of the Mediator's Death, even th put- ting the Called into the poſleifion of the bequeathed Inheritiice, demonſtrated by a common natural Law in all Nations of the 7 e{.; - ments effect on the Teilators Death : A Teſt.ment beins a diip2otition by W1ll nuncupative, or written, of either Gocds or Lands, which
are the Perions own, to be the Rizht and Poilcffion of others 2555p his Death, whom he nominateth in it : Such in proportion 15 7;
New Covenant, where God pives freely all ſpiritual zood thin « 1th an Heavenly Inheritance, as Legacicsto all his Called Ones in Crit _ by this laſt and beſt Will and Teſtament of his, writton in bis Scr5; «
ture Inſtrument, witneficd by the Prophets and Apouftles, 1-alcs! he the two Sacraments, cipecially the Lord's Supper, Lule 2 He who maketh a Teſtament by the Law of N:ture as of Nitions, mult dye before the Legatees have any profit by the Will, the Su an Heir inherits not but on the Fathe;”s then 15 tne Teſt 2- ment firm and valid, the time being come for the ticirs inheriting, nd tor the Wills execution, it being now unalterabic ; the neee tits of which 1s cleared, ver. 17. | ;
17 Fora * Teſtament is of 4 force 2ftzr men arc dead : otherwiic it is of no ftrenzth ar all / whillt th. Teſtator liverh.
k The Teſtator bcing. by Death diffeiſed of his Goods and Ions, the Right takes place of the Lepgatees, and the time of thor ch.:3- lenginz it ; ſuch a ſacred Tye there is upon the ſurvivins, tlat gore can of right add to it, alter, or ditſanul it. * / It js of no force xwiiile the maker of it liveth, becauſe they have need of the thin:« he- queathed; they can alter and change it, and by the Will ir {15 it 15 declared none ſhall have any right to the thin + beg 11 1t til] the Teſtator be dead. The contcquent of all this js, 7has the Teſtator of the New Teſlament mull Pur 7t in force 51 [.catn : and his Death is of zreater force -to confirm his Teftimer: than that of Men, becauſe his Will can never be violited, it ki 2 Divine Conſtitution, but tne Human Teſtament mav. Chuilt God- Man theretore dieth as Teitator, and puts the Teſtawent in force ; and by breaking the Bonds of Drcath, doth gloriouily ©: rot
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15 Whereupon 2»: neither the firſt 7e/lamert was dedicated 7 without blood.
m For, as much as all Teftaments are put in force by the Death of the Tettator, and all Covenants are moſt ſtronzly confirmed by Death and Blood 1n God's own Judgment, thence 1! is that the Mo- ſaical Covenant was confirmed by them. -n "Eyz<:2irimi ftrifiy taken ftgnifieth made new, or renewed, It is not ufed in the New Teſtament, but in this place, and Chap. 16. 20. the S1r. tranilate it here confirmed, or ratified. In the Old Teſtament the Septuagint ute 1s toexpreſs the Hebrew JI2T Chanocho Devt. 20.5, In which Law for a Man, who had built an Houſe,and. was called out to the Wars, to return and Dedicate it, was to take Poſſeſſion of it, and (eeute it from the claim of another. Here 1t 1s properly uſed to make ſure, firm, and inviolable;, and that by B/od, typical of Chriſt's, which i: tc higheſt and moſt folemn r.tiication. So were the Covenants Letors ratified, but eſpecially under the Law, and the Moſaical Coveni.: it ſelf, as appear by inſtance, Gen. 15. 9, Io, 17, 18. and 21, 54. compare Exod. 24. 5, 7, 8-
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