Chrifl the Prophet, ?cc. · 239 29. This comprehends the happine.fs rjf the foul in its jeparate fl.ate ; the glorious refurretlion of the body, at the lafi day; and the compleat happine(S of foul and body togefber; from thencefort~, 4nd for e- . vermore. The importance thereofwho can exprefs? But, whatever is in it, 'tis in the tefiameht made over ,to finners of mankind: and whofoever of them come ·, to Ghrifi for it, tball upon the ground of his faithfulnefs witho.ut all peradventure obtain it. . 1Thefe are the comprehenfive legacies of Chri!l's tcfiament. T6 enter more particularly into the detail of them, there would be no end. Ye have the book of the teflament; both old and new, among your hands : read it diligently, and that as Chrifi's tej}a– ment, as indeed it is : and iri every l)age, ye will per- . ceive of the unfearcbable riches . Withal remember, that lt nearly concerns· you, and every one ofyou, as ' parries legatees in whofe favour it was made ; fince ye are men,Jons of men, Prov. viii. 4· The tefiament is lawfully intimate to you, both by the preaching of the word~ and by putting a copy of it, a bible, in · your hands : Arid ye are c~lled to come to Chrifl:, as Executor of it, by faith in him to .receive your lega• cies. Happy will you be, if ye anfwer ' the call. But if ye do not, it will be ' more tolerable for 7yre and , Sidon, at the day of judgment than for you ;' for it will aggravate your condemnation, that not only were all thefe leg:tcies left you in Chrifi's tefiament;. , but the fame was intimate unto you, and ye wer~cal• led to come to the executor to !"eceivce them, bgt ye believed not, ye wquld nor. Thus far of Chrifi the 'I ejlatot of the covenant. Ill. Chrijl the,Prophet of the Covenant . The covenant being a,n eternal tranfaetion~ which no creature had accefs to be witi1efs unto; the being thereof was an abfolme fecret to the whole creation : and) in that, it was a ' myfiery of the manifold wi f- , Q. dom
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