()fthe Covenant. 24t have give11 him for a witnefs of the people.' God knew the world to be a guilty world~ whoJe confcienccs wit.. neiTed the demerit ofdeath; and that therefore they Id be very flow to believe the good newi from heaven, touching the coven·ant of p~ace : and, for this caufe, he would give them on'e competent towitnefs the truth thereof; and pitched upon Jefus Chrift for that effeCl:. He was a Son of Adam ; fo the more 11t to attefi it unto men: he was the eternal Son of God : and therefore not liable to error or mifiake in his tefiimony. He was an qe-witnefs to the eternd tranfacrion ; and fo he could · fpeak in the matter t~at which he hadftenwith .his Father, John viii. 38. He came down from heaven, where , the covenant was made, unto earth,, in favour of which it was made: wherefore he could witnefs in the earth, what he had feen in heaven about it, chap. iii. 31. ' He that cometl~ from h~aven; is above all. Ver. 32. And • ;what he hath feen and heard, that he tefiifi.eth/ In him we have a two-fold ~itnefs, which is full evi- .dence in law. He is the Amen, the faithful and true Witnefi, Rev. iii. 14 ~ In him we have the witnefs of' man; i'n refpefr wher~of he is the faithful Witnefs : and the Witnefs ofGod ; in refpeCl: whereof he is the true lf!itneft, even truth itfelf. Compare John viil. 1 8. I flm one,that bear witne(s ofmyfefj, where . ChrHl: is a Divine Witnefs, in refpeCl:oChis Godhead,. is faid to bear witnefs of himfelf, as a man appearing in the world, revealing the covenant. And in re– fpeCl: of both thefe, he is the Amen, whole witnen confirms and determines the truth ofthe matter in law.. · · Thirdly, He is in the fame capacity, conftitute the Interpreter ofthe covena.nt, job xxxiii. 23. to teach. it unto men. We are not only fl~ to believe the covenant, but it is hard for us to underfiand it. It lies fo far beyond the reach of our natural underfian-- . ding, that we cannot underfiand it in a faving man– ner, unlefs th' Srm ofGodhathgi7;~n us an under flan• Q., 2 , tling
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