theftconJ Head. 79 have now, received the atonement.' The comfort for awounded confcience? fick,w:ith the guilt of fin, lies here. This is that office of Chrifi, to which the con– vinced finne't, ftanding trembling before thejufl:judge of the world, lifts .his eyes; and makes his; recourfe for fafety : for there and only. there, can one fee a ran– foro, a righteoufnefs, an atonement. In his prophe.. tical and kingly.office, he adminifl:rates the covenant : , but in his priefily office,he perform'd the condition of it. So it is the foundation of the other two. 'Twas by the facrifice of himfelf, that the Word and Spirit :of the covenant, whereby be teacheth finners, were purchafed : and thereby I alfo he obtain'd his kingdom. And his interceffion is founded upon his ob]atioh. So his priefily office, and that confidered particularly in point of his offering his fa.crifice~ cloth, as the foun– dation-fione, bear the weight of th.e·falvation of fin., ners, and the horiour of God and the Mediator thereI in. Wherefore, it is not firange, that his invefiiture with the priefl:ly office was confirm'd _by the <;>ath ot God ; a folemnity not ufep; in the cafe of his prophe.. tical and kingly office. · And thus far of the making of the covenaat. A D III The Parts of the CQ'IJenant ofGrac~. l ·' ' THE !'arts of,t'fle Covenant ofGrac~, being the . thmgs thenui agreed upon, betwixt God and Chnfl: the fecond Addlm, are two, to wit, the condia I tlonary part, and the ·promijfory part. Thefe com.. prehend the whole of the covenant, and of them ·we ~:all treat in order. · · ' ' r . ' ...
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