. ~ . lnheing in the Cav~nant ofGrace. 265 ther ye have a faving intereft in it, being acrually come into ir, or not? The covenant is indeed brought un.- .. to you, in the ordinan~e of the gofpel : but are you brought into the· eovenant, united with the Head thereof Chrih: Jefus? It hath been adminiil:red to you, but have_yoq by faith taken 'h?ld ofit ?· You hav·e re– ceived the facrament of baptifm, the/ feal of the co· venant, in the right of your parents: but hav.e .you perfona11y embraced the covenant; in'finceriry? The two covenants, of works, and of grac~, di~ide the whole world between them : ev~ry man is under one of the two ; and no man can be under both, at on-e and the fame time, in refpecr of his fiate before the Lord, Rom. vi. 14. Under the firfi: coven'!nt ·il:ands a·numerous party, in the firfi Adam, head of th~t .broken covenant, deriving fin, death, and the curfe from him : under the fecond covenant frands a party, in' the fecond Adam, Head of that fu\fifled ,cov~l1ant, derivh:tg Jife an.d falvation fi·om him. TJ.tiefe parties will be judged, each according to 'the covenant, they· are under: fo the former wiJl be condemned, . in vir· tu.e of the cur.fe of the covenant in· which they are;– and the latter will be eternally faved, irt virtue of the promife of life in the covenant wherein they are. ;. In the.mean ,while, there is accefs for thefe of the fidl co– venant, to leave their 'parry and covenant; and to j~iu the party ih the fecond covenant: but death will 'block 'up that ac~efs. Wherefore, it is the interefi of the one, as well' as of the other, to know, which party and covenant they belong to. And for .trial hereof, I offer tl1e following marks, fig~s, or characters of thefe ~ho are favingly and perfonally within the co.. venant ofgrace. I. T~ey are fuch as have fled for refuge from the · covenant of works ; that have come into the cove– nant of the fecond Adam, as refugees from the _covc– naqt of the firfi Adam. For that's rhe charafrer of the heirs ofpromifo, Heb~ vi. 17, 18. Tho'•time was, when
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