tJfthe CGvenqnt. 231 ii1 cafe there be any of tbem, who will not come and make any claim thereto, they'll ju11ly lofe the benefit tl1ereof, and may die of want fqr all the legacy that was left them in that te[\ament. Our Lorq Jefus Cbrift has made fuch a teftament: the lofi family of A/am is the fa,mily confiitute Jiis legatees : and the ' gofpel is the lawful intimation made to them, to come ·to the executor and receive their legacies. All that be- • lieve get' the 'legacy ': all unbelievers Jofe it, and pe– . rifh under the want thereof; · and th'y perifn without '.all excufe. They cannot pretend, that there was no· thing left by the Tefiator; which is the cafe of rhe ' {:1llen angels : nor yet, that it was not intimate unto them ; which is the cafe ofthefe that never heard the gofpel. But tqey . periih, becaufe, howbeit there wa:. a rich- Jeg~cy left them, yet they underva1t1'd t~ e Te– ·fiator's l~indnefs, and would never come and claim it by faith. Hence the benefit's of the covenant ofgrace even in · refpelt of unbelicyers, are c~lled their own, · 11amely, in virtue ofthe right they have to them by • ~he tenor of Chrifi's tefia.ment. Jon. ii. 8. ' They that obfer~e lying vanities, forfake their ·own mercy. • Accordingly, to the, elder brother in the parable, Luke ~v.theFather fi:tith,V er. 31. 'Son, all that I have is thine! So Chap. xvi. 12. ' Ifye have not been fai thfui in that \Yhich is another man's, who {hall give you that which is your own ?' that is, ' the true riches,' Ver._ I 1. •.And their ruin is lodged at the c,:ioor of their un– belief, in not coming to receive . them, John v. 40. f And ye will not come to me, that ye might ha \?e life.' Chrifi's promifes in his tefiament are to man– kind· finners, as the promife ofCanaan was to the ljr'a~/ites in Egypt indefinitely, there ,not excepted whofe carcafes fell in the wilderncfs, ~xod.. vi. 6. ' Say unto the children of HraeJ, I am the Lord,' --Ver. 8. 'And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did fwear.' Thus was there a promife left them of entring into th,e reil: ofCanaan: and thefe who believed it 1 got the poifeflion accordingly; thefe who
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