' of t!Jt Covenant. 233 mal e~e.cution thereof: accordingly, the ~pofile ob– ferves, that he was deliveredfor our offences, and war f'aijed again for our juflification, Rom.iv. 25. And he lives for evermore. · Even when he was in the grave i1e was capableof'executing his tefl:amen~, being God as well as m.an, having a life which could not be 1oft, no not for a ·moment; namely, the divine life. And t~e excu.ting of it then, when the ht~man na;ure was jn the fiate of death, was much the fame as h1s exccu-- . ring of it before he had aCtually affumed the human _nature at 41l. And that Jefus ChrHl: really is the executor of his .own tefiament, appears fi-om his being confiittue by ~he F;;tther Adminifirator of the covenant, to di(penfe the benefits thereofas a great Steward of the houfe of , heaven; and from the aB:s 'ofthat his adminifiration, both in this life, and in that which is to come: for be it is, that hath in his hand the conferring of grace, both .real and relative, on finners; and the conferring of ~lory on faints: the which are. ~h~ executing of his tefiamen~, as well ~s the adminiftri ng of~he covenant;_ the former being fubordinated to the latter. Mean while i~ canpot be refufed, that he executes it by his Spirit, and em.Pioys gofpel-~inifiers i'n t?e matter. Wherefore, wliofoever would have any favmg benefit by ChrHl's tefiament, or would partake of the legacies therein peque~thed, mull: come to himfelf to receive them ; firice he is the executor of his own tefiament. And therefore, the confiant call of the gofpel to pe- ' ,rilhing finners, is to ~ome to Chriil: for life and £1lva– tion; ~nd th~_ complaint on thefe who forC1ke their own rrz.ercy, IS that they wi!l1wt come to him, John v. 40. And the whole Hfe of believers mufi be-a cam• ing to him, 1 Pet. ii. 4· that is, a living by faith in him; Gal. 20. whereby they may be daily receiving of the legacies,' according to their exigencies. . IV. ln the lafi place, it is to be enquired, 'Vhat . ~re . the legacies letr, in ChriH's Tdlamen't, t~ poor ' finners
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