· ' oft/,e'' Covenant. 249 miniflry, to preach,tne:gofpel, and intimate and offer the covenant to perifuing ~finpers ; and ·fo he was a . minijler of the circumc't}i:on, Rom. xv.·8. Of him in 'this capacity particularly, Solomon that king -preacher, was a type, Eccl. i. .r. And this alfo he-did, and tlill ·cloth, carry on me'diately and by proxy, efpecially after his afce11fion in heaven : and that, partly by h~s apofiles and other extraordinary officers, whom he employ'd to .write; as well as to fpeak, in his name : and partly, by ordinary mi~ifi~rs of the gofpel, to be continu'd in th~church, to the end of the world, Eph. iv. J 1, 12, IJ. · T hus he is now adminifiring the eo~ venant unto us, by .putting his written word of the · Old and New-Tejlament in our hands, and fending men in his name to preach the gofpel -unto us. By. thefe means he fpeaks to !inners, ~ntimating, and of;. fering them the covenant : and fo he carries on the work, to the falvation of thofe that believe, and ren– dering unbelievers inexcufable, · 2 Cor. v. 20. Rev. iii : 22. Luke x. 16• Wherefore the offer of the cove– nant, made to us in the gofp~l, is his offer. : and tho' the word is fent to us by men, they are but his voice · in the matter, he is the Speaker. Then fee that ye · refufe not him that fpeaketh,, Heb. xii. '25· . . Secrmdly; His making the intimation and offer of the covenant effeCl:ual to the eleCl:, by the Spirit, 1 Pet. ·'!,' 12 . ' By them that have. preached the gofpel unto ·you, with the holy Ghofi fent down from heaven.' The great Prophet ofthe covenant can effeCtually teach the moll: unteachablefinners ofman~ind; caufing light not only to break forth in a dark world, but in · dark hearts, by his Spirit : for. the fulnefs of the Spi ... rit of light is in him, and he hath eye..falve ,for the fpi ritually blind, iii. 18. He knoweth who are ·his, in whole name he co,ntraeted with the Father, and re– ceived the promife of the Spirit : and fooner or later, he fo ep.lightens them, that he refcues tpem from un. der the power of their fpiritual darknefs 1 and renders Q. 3 th~ ) .
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