. of the Covenmzt. ' .221 ~ ·. nuncupative ~ejlament: but it was afterwards com– mitted to writing; fo that there was not only aword of the tefiament to be heard, but .a book .of the tefia– Jile.~t to be read, . by the l t gate(!S; Heb• ix•. 19, 20 ~ And fo we have it a written tefiament, in that part o,f the holy Scripture Galled by.the name of the 0/dTeflament.. . 1 _ Chri.fi's Ne1.u·Tej}ament is the declaJ."atioii of the fame lafi wiJI <i>f our dying Saviour, touching his un– fearcha~le riches, confirmed by his own dca~h on the crols, feal'd with. the feaJs of baptijm an~ the Lord's [upper:, and to ,Gontinue fo~ eve~more, 1 Cor. x~. ~3~ 24, 25. Mat. :xxvii. 19. Heb. vii. I 2; 16, 17. This alfo was originally made by word of mouth, in the time of his publick minifiry, wherein he declared his , \vill anent the great falvation, which, as the Apofl:le obferves 1 at firji begt!n to be fPokenby the Lord, Heb" il. 3• And it was in like manner -afterwards commit.., .ted to writing: _and wehave it too a written tefiament, in that: pan of the holy Scripture call~d by the name of the New-Teflament. . · , · · . If we look for the originai date of Chri!Ps Old or firft ' Tefiamenr, we find his tHl:ament to be of a date as e·ariy as the nature of the thing cou14 bea,r; being made inparadil€, .on the day of Adam's fall, _ in _tbc: _ cool oft he day, Gen. iii. 8. .otherwife ca-lled the .tim~ rbetween the two evenings, Exod. xiL 6. that Is, be~ tween three and fix a-clock in the afternoon. At the ·' whichdme, our Lord Jei'us did, in the promife ofthe, fied of _the woman to_bruift the head of the ferpentit which iliould bruife his her:I, Gtm. iii. 15. fignify his death, and d~dare his \vill fot the benefits of his pur.– chafe their accruing to fi11ners there0y. And ·~hat day i judge to have been the fixth day of the creation, the fame day 'wherein man was created : reckoning tha t the fcripture teacheth, that ' . Adam lodg'd not one night in hono?r,' ~s fome do agreeable to the0rigina1, tea~ Pfalm xhx . ~~ . . They who ~all11Qt <thil)k that . P z · ' die
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