22t . Chri/1 the Teflator fling, and enter without it; for the p{}wer of death is now~ in Chrifl:'s h~md, and he will not fuffer it to enter there with it. And the time cometh, when he'll fay to the grave, Give up: and then the bars there· of will be broken afunder, the gates thereof fly open -:tl)d it will deJiver up to h~m its lodgers; for he's in! .trufl:ed, as Adminifl:rator .of the covenant, with full power over death and the grave. ' , Laj!:!y, The .eternal confummate happinefs of the covenant is in his hand, \whereby to render the fouls of his people happy immediately after death, and then foul and body together happy at the lafl: day : for all pcwer in heaven is given him. The Father bath inade him the great Repofitory . of eternal life, the Fountain from whence it fhall fl:ream forth to all the heirs of life' ; and the difpenfing of it is intrufied to ' him, 1 John v. 11. 'God .hath given to us eternal life : and this life is in his Son.' John xvii. 2. ' As thou hall: given . him power over all Heih, that he ihould give eternal life to as many as thou hafi given him.' Wherefore ·his dying people do in faith corn· mit their fouls to him, as Stephen, Acts vii. 59· ' Say· · ing, Lord Jefus receive my fpirit.' And at thelafl: day, \ he prdnmmceth the fentence; and folemnly re<Zeives them into the .kingdom otheaven, Mat. xxv. 34· And, thus Chrifl: is the T'ruflee of the covenant. . . . II. Chrifl the Tefiator of the Covenant. In the next place, our Lord jefi1s is the :1e_flator of the covenant, as the Apofile teacheth, ~leb. ix. 15, I 6, 17. By the condirionary part of the covenant, .God had a comp·enfation of the wrong done to his glory byJinners. And by the promiJTory p<)rt, ~hrifl: had unfearchable riches •to communicate unto them, whereby they might be made happy: and being to die in the caufe, according to his covenant, he time'· ly made his teframent, as a dead of conveyance there· of uhto them ; turning the promi.Cfory part of the eo.. venant,
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