/ of the Covenant. 23~ a good Friend, the Lord Jefus Chrifi, who bath left us by tefiament, the holinefs of his nature, wherewith he was born ; . the righteoufnefs of his life, even all the ~ood wqrks he :-vr~u?ht. in obedience to the ten command,ments, durmg h1s life qn earth; and the fa– tisfacUon made by_ his death, and fufferings from the \vomb ·to the grave : f!e bath rn::1de all thefe one un– divided gift ofrighteoufnefs, and bequeathed the fame to us in his tefiament, to be received by faith.' By . means hereof, the mofi wretched finner of us all, ma)~ be beautified in the £ght of a holy God, have where– with to anfwer all the 'demands of the law of life, and obtain a full pardon and acceptanc.e with God as righ .. teous ' in his fight. How !halt we efcape, if never claiming this legacy, we trample on the Te~ator's , kindnefs ! · ;: Legacy 2. His new-covenant-interefi , in ·God, whereby to render us happy, Heb. viii. 1q. 1will be to them ·a God. Our father Adam left his whole family witlio11t God in . the world, Eph. ii. 12. This was unfpeakable lofs, a ruinjng lofs : all mi.fery. ' in time and eternity was wrapt up in it. It was a lofs,. that could tiever have. been compehfed; and to us, it..– was irrecoverable., ·· .But Jefus Chrifi ·bath recovered~ for us, the loft-covenant interefi in God, and bequca·-: thr:d it to us in .his Tefiament. This is a legacy full– beyond our comprehenfion. . Who can <!:onceive, fuliy, what is in that, I will be your God? Surely, all blef– fednefs is in it, for time and eternity. Pfal. cxliv. 15. Happy is the p_eople whife God is the Lord. Herein.' is · left you peace and reconciliation with God, John xiv. , 27. Adoption in~o the family of God, 2 Cor. yi. 16, I 7, 18 ; yea, that ye ihall have God for your own God, your own hedt~ge, in a joint~heidhip with Chrifi 51 .• Rorn. viii. 17. ·All the perfons of the Godhead to be yours; the Father to be your Father, the Son your S,aviour, the holy Ghofi your fancrifier: and all the attributes of God, t0 be ~mploy~d for you~· ha-ppinefs ,__ . . . N~
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