· ·~24 Chri/1 the Teflator therefor~ necetfary for their behoof, to make it a tef~ tan1entary ditpofition or tefiament. For clearing of the riature of this tefiamen:t, which is of fo great importance for all to know, who have :.my concern for their fah·ation, we ihall confider, , (r.) The making thereof, \2.) :The Legatees, (J.) The executor, and (,.J..) The Legacies. 1. As to t'he making of Chriil's tell:ament, it is fir!l: of all tp be obferv'd, that tho' the covenant was inc - ,deed from eternity, t,he tefiament wa_s ·not fo. - For Chrifi made his tefiament, as Adminifiratqr of the 'covenan,t ; which adminifiration he did not enter up– on but in 'time. He ~va~ from etern~ty the trufiee of , ~he covenant, which grapd trl.lfi ·;was a neceffary pre– ·l·equifite of his adminifiration : yet JorafmU:ch as his commencing Tefiator of the cov~nant, was an aB: .o£ 'his adminifiration thereof, there could be no .place for it, until there was pl~ce for adminifirating the cove– nant, which there was not, till once the covenant of works was broken. And hereto befi agreeth the na· ture of a tefiament, which is not fimply a will, but a– will declared, .tefiified, and fignified by word or writ, or fome one or other external fign pleadable by ' the legatees, in order to their obtaining of the legacies bequeathed. Chrifi's tefiament, which for fubfiance is but one, is yet two· fold, in refpeB: pf different circ~mfiances, whet;ewith it. ha.th been veHed ; namely, ' the Old or firfi Tefiament, and ~he Ne\v-Tefiament, 2 Cor. iii~ 14. Heb. if{.. 15. , · Chrifi's Old Tefiament is the declaration of the lafl: will of our dying Sa,~iour, .touching his unfear~hable riches, confir!l1ed by flain facrifices of Divine infiitu– tion, fealed with the feals of circumcijio1z and thepa;: Jover, and enduring in the church till the fulnefs of · time, and the manifefiation of himfelf to !Jrael in the llelh, Heb . ix. 20. Rom . iv. 1 I. 1 or. v. 7· Luke xvi. IO. 'this 'his teft:ament was originally made by. word of mou~h ; whichJdnd of tefiament is called a nun-
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