.23 ~ Chrifl the Tefialor. finners of mankind, 4is only legatees ? In the gene~ raJ, there is left to them therein, ,what is fufficient to nl-ak~ them happy fo,rtime and eternity: even all the . benefits of the covenant to be received by faith. Thele are Chrijl himfelf, /an9 all things in and with him, Rom. viii. 3 2. And the general claufe of the te.lla– lnent, is, According to your faith be it untoyou, Mat. ix: 29. It being beyond our reach, fully to reckon up the particulars, it fuall fuffice to point at a few things ~~ the eomprehenfive legacies, left by Jefus Chrifi in his Tefiament, to flnners of mankind indefinitely. Legacy I. His own compleat righteoufnefs, to co– ver us before the Lord ; hence called the gift ofrigh– teoufne_p, Rom. v. 17. as being made over to us iri his · Tdtamen!t, to be received by faith, in which fenfe, it is fa id to be revealed unto faith, that is, to be believed ' or tru!1ed on, and fo received .and put on, Chap. i. 17. Dying perfons are wont to leave futes of mourning to their poor friends ~ but our dying Savio"!r left to all hi.s legatees, the garme.nts offolvation, the robe of rigiJteoufne(s, Ifa.1xi.-ro. beautiful garments, Ch~p~iii. I. Whiteraiment, Rev. iii. J8. as a fute ofrejoicing; ·for that, tho' he was dead, he is alive, and lives for evermore. Our Father Adam left us ·naked, to our fhAme: yet need we not go naked, nor our fhame be feen. For, by the fecond Adam's Tefiament, fuffici– ·ent cloathing is· left to our Fat)1er's broken family ; . even the robe of his own righteoufnefs: and nothing remains , but that we receive it as his legacy to us, and put it on. A holy God cannot admit us into his pre· · Jence, in our fpiritual ng.kedncfs ,: the law ' requires us to appear before him, in unfpotred holinefs of nature, . and perfeCt: righteoufnefs of life, as the condition of . life ; and witha I, with a f:'ltisfacrion to jufiice, 'by fuf· fering, beqafe we have finned. But .how can we make Jl.1ch. an appearance before him? We can by no means put ourfelves in fuch a condirion, by ~my thing we can ·.do or fuffer. Yet is not our cafe hoplefs. ·we have a
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