Inferences from the fecond Head. 73 Lafl!y,There behoved to be a pfiefi to offer this fa– crifice, this valuable facrifice, unto God, upon that altar: e'lfe there could have been no facrlfice to be ac– cepted, and fo no removal offin, and_confequently na new co-venant. And iince Chrifi hitnfelf was the fa– crifice and the altar too, he himfelf alone could be the ptieH, And fora(much as the weight of the falvation of flnhers lay upon his call to that office ; h~....was ma~e priefl: of the covenant, by the oath of God; ·Heb. vii. :10, 21. As he had full power oV,er his own life, to rtlake himfelf a factifice for othets: fo his Father's fo– lemn invefiing of him with this office, by an oath, gave him accefs to offer himfdf effectually ~ even in fuch fort as thereby to fulfil the condition of the co– venant, and to purchafe eternal life for them. , · ln/erences]rom the (eco11d Head. , I !hall fhut up this Head, of the' making of the co– venant of grace,' with tWo ·Inferences (rom the whole. lnf. l. What remains for finhers, that they may be perfonal1Y. and favingly in covenant with God, is not as parties-contraCl:ers artd undertakers to,make a eo~ venant With him, fot life and falvation; but only, to t~ke hold of God's covenartt already made from eter– nity, between the Father and Chrifi the fecond Adam, and revealed and offered t<;> us in the gofpel,Ifa .lvi. 4,6. I have n~ defign· hereby to difparage our covenants, made for national reformation by our godly progeni– tors, and commonly called the National covenant, and Solemn League and Covenant, on which God fet the feal ofhis good p1eafure, in the experience o£many.Thefe, and the Jike, are cov~nantsof duties, confequential e– nough to the taking hold ,ofGod's covenant of grace. Neither would I difcourage any ferious Jouls, fi·om tak– ing hoid of God,s covenant of _grace for' eternal life · and f.qlvation to themfelves, with all the awful folem– nity of the moil: exprefs words, •yea and of writing and fubfcribing it with their hands; whic:h is com– monly
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