264 fl['he Trial of 4 faving perfonal , · . and this will ·be the everlafiing fecurity for the conti· nuation of the faints happinefs. The which happi· nefs Hfuing from the n1erit of his .facrifice, as their ~riefl:, will be ~comm.~nicated unto them, 9.y him as their Praphet and tlsleir King; for thefe his officeswill never be laid ~fide. As he is ' a Prieft for ever, fo of ·his kingdom there fhall be no end,' Luke j. 33· and the La~b will be th,e Light of the heavenly city, Rev. ·xxi. 23. the faint.s communion With God there, be– ·ing fiill in and through the Mediator, in a -manner ·agreeable to their fiate of perfettion, Chap. vii. 17• . · And thefe are the chief aCl:s of.his adminifl:ratio1,1 of "the covenant, as Inter.ceflor thereof. Thus far of the fourth h~ad hame1y, th,e admini· flration ofthe' covenant: . · . . E A v. T/Je Trial of ajaving perfon_al Inbeing in the Cove• ' ' · , nani ofGrace. · t X7E have now opened the docrrine of the cove– , .V nant ofgrace, in treating of the parties in it, ·the. maki~g of it) the parts of it,_and the admi.nifir.ati· · on thereof: 1t remains to,·make fome pracrtcal Itn• provement ofthe whole, in thi~ and the followin:g head. , If one ferioufly confiders - the covenant of _grace, as 'that on which the falvation of our fouls depend,s, he can h<!rdly .mifs. t9 pl,it the ' quellion to himfelf, What interefi have' I in thai cov~nant? There's rio quefiion, but you have ·a common interefi in it, by whicl) you are fufficiently warranted to come into it; :but That you.. may have, an~ ye~ perilh; for even ' children of the kingdom lhall b~ cafi out into utter c;larknefs,' Ma_tth. ·v1ii. 12. But th_e qudl:ion is, Whe- - · · lther . '
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