231 Chrift the 7e/tator, &c. for fpiritual be'nefits ; pleading the teOament for the one; -as for the other. And to receive the bread and the water, in virtue ofChrifi's tefiame,nt,-will be more ·fatisfying to a chrifHan in the exercife cffaith, than all the tulnefs of worldly men can. be ; forafmm::h as at that rate they have them, as the pm·chafe of the ·pre– cious blood of the Tefiator,, and his Father's bleffing therewith. Legacy 5. An unfiing'd death, John viii. 51. ' If a n1an keep my fctying, he ilialJ never fee death.' Men in their teibtments make provifion for thG comfonable life of their legatees; but they can leave them nothing to make death fafe and comfortable to them. But in Chrifi's tefiamenr,there is a fpecial provifion for his lega– tees; indeath, as well as'i'n life: and,in the faith thereof; the faints have ~elcomed the grlm meffe·nger, dying comfortably in_ the faith of the fealed tefiament, Heb. xi. ·1 3· Onr Lord.Jefus being to encounter death armed with its fiing, and that in its full firength ·given it by the broken law, was perfeCtly fure of the viCtory: fry · making his tefiament, he left it as a part ofhis 1afi will that !inners of Adam~s race fhould be free from rhe. fiing of death, through faith in hitn:. A preci_ous le· . gacy, . which he could well bequeath, becaufe purchaf– ed byhis own death; and, which he can and will make: effecrual, fipce the fulnefs of power over death and the:– grave is in his hand,, an,d he is executor of his own tefiament. How lamentable is it, that men knowing they nmil: , die, fhould ~ flight the tefiament, and the kindnefs of their befi . friei1d, appearing here, where' none elfe are capable ·to help! Legacy, 6. ·And lafi, Everlaning life on the other· ftde of death, John vi. sa. ' He that eateth of thi~· · bread, !hall live for ever. ' Chrifi's tefl:amen~ looks· not only to thi-s, but the other world;-in it is provifion made, not only for time, but for eternity: he bath difponed in it a hingdom the kingdom of heaven is– an everlafiing inheritance for the legatees, Luke xxii... 2~
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