ofthe 'Covenant. ' 25' 'take its place in the adminifiration oJ the ·covenant: there's no need of any new facrificing there, For by Qne offering he hath perfeBetl for ever them that are faniiified, Chap. x. 14. But hi$ facrificing natively took its place in the making of the covenant, and fulfilling the condition thereof; and his interceffion; in the adminiih ation of the covenant, and flll-filling the promifes of it. Accordingly, for the adminifira· tiori of the covenant, he is the interceffor thereof, Rom. viii. 34· 1 It is Chri!l that died, yea rather that · is rifen again, who is even at the right hand of God, · who alfo maketh interceffion for us. And indeed there was need of an intercefTor, for that ~£Feet; flnce an infinitely ho1y God, and finful creatures, could neither come together intQ a fiate of. place, nor continue in it, with the fafety of God's ' honour, without ' an intercelfor. Wherefore Jefus Chrifi being appointed thereto, is, in that charaCter, · ' Entred into heaven itfelf; now to appear in the prefence of God for us,', Heb. ix. 24. to manage the I , bufinefs af the covenant for oar behoof; willing the merit of his facrifice to be applied to all thefe in whofe room and fiead he died, and 'that for all · the intent& and purpofes of the covenant in their favours, accbr– ding to the method laid down and 'fiated therein. And this his interceffion is always effeCtual; as he himfelf tefiifieth, faying unto his Father, John xi. 4_2. ' I know that thou hearefi me always.' Whence it appears, that the objeCt: of it is not of equal lati– tude, with the object of the adminifiration of the eo~ venant, and of his acting in the o_ther relations be– l<Jnging to tha-t adminifiration ; but that_it is refirict– ed unto thofe, whom, he as fecond Adam reprefel}te4 · in the eternal tranf.1Cl:ion. And this is very agreeable to the nature of the Divine contrivance for the falvati– on of. !inners; in which the eternal purpofe h·ath made a difference of perlons ; according 'to the fovereign will~ and pleafure : th1s being, as it were, one claufe · R3 m
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