226 Chrijl the Tefiator the events recorded from Gen. ii. 7. to the endoft he third ~hapter, were· crowded within the cornpafs of one day, may weigh there\V'ith, the events relating to the death ofChriH, which are recorded Luke xxii. 66. to the end, chap. xxiii. x,--33· John xix. 1. Mat. xxvii. 27, 28. John xix. 2, s, 9---15. Matth. xxvii. 24. All which things were clone in the fpac'e of half a day: for Chrift W'as crucified about twelve of the clock, Luke xxiii. 44· --46. Some through an ·unwillingnefs to think · <>f their death, do put off the making of their tefiaments uhto a death-bed: but fo very willing was Chrifr, the fe- , cond Adam, to die for _us, that he ' fet his houfe in , ordel',' and fo prepared himfelf for death, that very · day the firfi Adam fell. The bufinefs of the great King, arid the bufinefs of the ruin'd world of man~ kind, required hafie. The whole fabrick of the world was, by 'Adam's fall fa. unhing'd, that it was hafien– ing to a total diffolution, and mankind about to pe– .riih in the ruins ; till the fecond .Adam went in, and: bore up the pillars thereof, in virtue of his death to: .eil:ablifh the earth again, Ifa Jxlix. &. Wherefore in , .Paradife, he mad'e his teftament in ~few words, con-: taining a difpofition of the beriefi ts of the covenant,. in favour of poor finners,- Gen. iii. 15. and typicaHy went in· under that weight .of wrath, which was pref.;, Jing down all : and fo . he ejlablijh'ttl th~ earth again~. 'Jn this form it was, that they of t~1e firfl: ages of the . woad had the tefiament.. But it was repeated, and ,_ renewed to Abraham, to, whom the promifes were· . made, Gal. iii. , 16. comprehended under the name of .-the covenants, or te(taments of promift, Eph. ii. 12.. As alfo;to Ifrael in the wildernefs, whomMofes fprink1ed with blood, faying, ' This is the blood of:the te• fiament,' Heb. ix. 19, 20. And this was Chrifi'_s 0/d– ilejtament, upon which all that believed, from Adam to Chiifi, built their faith, and hope ofobtaining the legacies left there in;. tho' it was upwards of four . . . ~~ '
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