~28 · Chrift the Teflator ;not don~ without the tefiament's bein~ confirmed by blood, or death ; the which, tho' really the blood 0 'r de~th of beans f~crifjced ; y~r, according to the Apo– !He's reafoning, were rec,:kon'd the blood or death of the Teftator, they b~ing facrifked as types of him. , And hence it appears, that whqtever have been rh~ qifferent circumfiances, wher~with the tefiament, in <iifferent Periods, harh been vefied: the Old and New Tefiament,nuncupative qO~ written,are forft{b(iance·, but the One te!lament of' 'Jefus Chrifl: the fame ye· ,fierday, and to day, and for ever,' Iieb. ~iii. 8. hav'! ing 'the fame force and effe(l: for _full remiffion of fin ~nd eternal falvation, legacies claim'd and obtain' cl by faith, jn virtt1~ of the tefiament, Acts xv. I 1. Rom, ).v. 13 ~ Only; what was firfi dedared by word or :mouth, the fame was thereaft~r written. The legacies ~t firfi: beql.leathecl in general compr~henfive terms, ·were ;tft~rward partict1larly norpinat~g : apd ·tn th~ JVew-teflqrr,ent tqey are more clearly exprefi, than in. lhe Old. The former was a .copy of the tefiament, · fitted for the times before the Tefiator r~ally died :the Jatter, fitted for all times thereafter, to the end of the world ; ang th~refor~ nq other copy is tq be accepted ;lfter it, · · II. It 1s to be enquire~, ' Who are the legatees,' Jhe parties in whofe favour the te{lament w~s made, ;md who may in the method of th~ tefhment, claim ;md obtain the legacies therein bequeath'd ? Chrifi:'s making hi!; tefia~ent, being the fundamental a~ or . b,i~ adminitlr'ltiop of the coven~n.t, as we have already feen ; the 1~gatee~ in the tefl"ament mufi: needs be th.'e f'l-me as the obje(ts <;>f pis adminifiration of the cove– n.ant, that is to fay, Sinners of manki1!d indefinite• ly : for jf Chrifi is authorif~d by th~ Fath~r, to admi.. nitl:er the covenfint to 1llankiT?d-.(inners i,nd~finitely, :md hath accordingly mnd_e his tefl:ament for that ef .. feQ; fi1rely none can be ex~epted out of the tell~meqt1that are .not excepte~ out of his adminiftration , - Theni·
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