282 The Way of enflating Sinners;: ready te> fulfil them to all, who yet !hall take hold thereof. For that end, he bath made his teftament of thefe promifes, ~nd confl:itu,ted finn,ers of mankind his legated; .that whofoever of them will, may come claim, and tak~ ·the wattt' of life freely, Rev. xxii.17. The whole of rhe covenant ~s in him. , In bit;n is God, the Party-contraeter on heaven's fide, 2 Cor. v. 19He himfelfis the Party-contraete~· on man's fide : an~ in· him are all believers, really .; and all the eleCt: le– gally and reprefentatively. In him is the condition of the covenant, and that as fulfil1ed: he is the Lord ()Ur righteoufoe(s, Jer. xxiii. 6. In him are all the premifts, rea and /imen, 2 Cor. i. 10. all meeting in 11im, as lines ofa circle in their centre ; and fore and fiedfafl, noways liable to mifgive, as did the promife of tpe covenant of work in.the firfi Ad~m. And he .as a king, bath emitted his royal proclamations, bear– .ing that 7.uhatfoever "'.uil/ come unto him, and unite . '\vith him as Head o( the covenant £hall be taken into ·· it, and have a right to all the privileges thereof, ia· him and through him. 1. . ' . .._ Thus the covenant is brought to you,' a'nd fet be· fore you in the gofpel; fo that ye ] ).lUfi needs be ei– :ther r_eceivcrs, or refufer_s ofi~. :_ Refufe Jt not, that's dangerous beyond eipreffion. Talre hold of it ; for , it iJ your life. Sinners, ye are under the covenant of works, where there's, no life, no falvation for you: but the door of_tl~e new covenant is opened unto you; come, enter in to it without_delay. Flee, arid make your 'efcape, out of the dominion of the Jaw, the cove'– nant of works, ye were born under, and are 'living und~r : and that can in nowife be d'one, but by YC?Ut' accepting and enbracing this covenant offered to you in the gofpel, to the enfiating ofyou perfonally in it, to all the purpofes of life and falva~ion. ' ' Sinners ..
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