270 . · The Trial ofa fovingperfonal choice. . Being fenfible of what they fuffered, by the lnifcarriage of Adam their firfi head, Chrifi is preci· ous to them as fecond Adam. They come. into the covenant, and ab~de alfo in it, under his wings allen– :~rly ; ' expecting no benefit ofit, nor by it, . bunhro·· bim. And they have taken him as their head for go– vernment, as well as their head for nburifhment and fupport. They have delivered up th~mfelves unto him, .to b~ ruled by him, as well as to be faved by him:· to be governed by his laws, and not by their own ~ufis; as well as to be faved by his grace, and not by their own works. . . VI. The condition of the covenant, fulfilled by Je· fus Chrifr, is the alone ground of their confidence be· fore the Lord, as to acceptance with him, or any be· nefit of the covenant they loqk to partake of. A cru· dfied Saviour is the foundation laid in ·Zion, for fin– ners ~o build on: and believing on him is the foul's IJUilding upon it. 1 Pet. ii. 6. if men build on another foundation, they build on the f.·md,and their confidence foal/ be rooted out: If, being driven offfrom all other foundation, they build not on this neither, they mu£1: needs perifh as the chaffwhich the winddriv~th away. To believe, or build on Chrifi's righteoufnefs by him fulfiJ..Jed, can import ne lefs, than one's trufiing on it for his' falvation. Whether this trufi be firong or weak, · it mufi be : elfe faith is not,.building on Chrifi is not; but the foul is kept in a fiate of wavering; in oppofi– tion. t.o the "fraying ofit by faith on Chrifi, James i. , 6. Now, he that is within the covenant, takes Chrifi's · tighteoufnefs as his alone grounJ of confidence bef~re the Lord : for the covenant thews not, nor allows a· ny other~; nothing ' fave Jefus Chrifi, and him cru– cified,' 1 Cor. ii. 2 . H~ hath fome meafure of confi– dence for Jife and falvation upon that ground-; where– by he is di!linguiihed from the defperate, faithlefs, and unbelieving: and what confidence he bath for Hfe and f,alvation, he hath up~n that ground alone; wherebhy . e
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