,,f the C6venant. ; 26£ SeclJnJ!y, Appearing for them, and ,in their name taking poffeffion ·'of heaven; and all th~ other bene– its of the covenant, which they have a, right to, in virtue oftheir new covenant·flate, Eph. ii. 6. 'And •bath raifed us up together, and made u,s ·fi,t together, in heaYenly places in Chri!l: jefus.' · Heb. vi. 20. Whither the Forerunner is for us entredf' That mo– .ment wherein a finnet en~ers into the cqvenant, by believing, he bath a right to all; for ifchildren, then heirs, Rom. viii. 17. Howbeit, in the cafe of mofi of , the children of God, the poffe,ffion feems t9 be de– layed long after that tim;e. But it is to be confidern ed, th,at poffeffion may not only be taken, by a man in his own perfon ; but alfo in the perfon of another: thus one may, by his attqrney, take poffe.ffion of an efiate, ,which he never f.'lw ; and a minor' by his rc– prefentative, may be po(fefi of ·what it is not as yet meet to .give him into his own hand. So howbeit the believer's poffeffion of all in his own perfon Is-indeed delayed ; yet in this . refpeCt it is not delayed. one moment after his believing in Jefus Ch_rifi : ' fc;>r his ·interceffor aCts for him in the matter. What fuould hihder this manner of poffe.ffion one moment after believing? For ,the covenant of promifes is at1 ·undoubted right ; .the finner, tho' on· earth, cloth by faith plead it before God in heaven; and Chrifi is there, as his reprefentative and lnterceffor, to take, po.fTeffion in his name.' Wherefore every believer: fhall jufily reckon himfelf, tho' having nothing, yet pCJffif– fing all things, :1 Cor. vi. IQ. and compleat in hint, Col. ii. 10. · Cfhirdly, Maiatainingthe peace between-G~d and them, while they are here in this world.' · Having purchafed their peace with heaven by the facrifice of himf'elf, and by interccffion brough~ them into a frate of peace, he doth not leave it to .rhemfelves to main– taia it. ' If it were fo, it would foon. be at an end.~ There are fo many failures on their part,~ while they , R 4_ ;~.re r ~ ..– •,_ ·,
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