Book II. C H R I S T A T E S T A T 0 R. TEST A TO R . his Ja!l: Will; though it be but a Man's Covenam, yet if it be con– firmed, no Mon difanulleth, or addeth thereunto, Gal. iii. '5· PARALLEL. prefume to do it. lf we, or an Angel from Hea– vm, preach any other Gofpe! unto you, than that which we have preached, let him be accurftd, Gal. i. 8. If any Mrm jhall take away from the Words of the P>·uphecy of this J]ook, God jhall take away his Part out of the Book of Life. lf any Man add tmto thefe 'l'bings, God jhall add unto him the Plagues that are written in this Book, Nev. xxii. 18, 19. XV. ATdhtor dies, and rhereXV. Chrifl: by dying opened a Way, and gave by opens a Way for his Legatees Legacies to Sinners, to have his Teitament exe– to come into the Poffcffion of the cuted ; if the Tell:ator had not died, there had Inheritance that is left them. been no room nor accefs to them that are called, to receive the eternal Inheritance, Heb. ix. '5· TEST AT 0 R. I. THEDeath of a Teitator a– mongfr Men, makes only his own Will valid, cannot make and confirm the Will of another. II. A Tefrator amongfr Men, cannot be a Witnefs to the Will he ratifies and eitablilhes. D IS PAR IT Y. I. CHRIST did not only give force and value to his own Will, bm to the Will of the Father alfo. II. Chrill: is not only a 'l'eflator, but a Wit•ztft of the fame Teframent, as it is the Father's. H e is given ofGod as the great Evidence ofCovenant– Love, and of all the choice Favors and Good– Will to Sinners: God fo loved the World, &c. John iii. r6. And fecondly, he is given as the great Covenant-Inrerefr and Relation betwixt God and Sinners. He tefrifies that all that is contained in the Covenant is true, and the abfolute Will and Pleafure of God: He faid, 'l'hefe 'l'hings are true and faithful, Rev. xxii. 6. Who is it that affirms and te!lifies this? J efus Chriit, who is the true and faithful Witnefs, Rev. i. 5· III. A Teltator among Men beIII. Chrifr gives Legacies to Thoufands, and queaths or gives Legacies compaten Thoufands; no godly Man hath, nor ever ratively but to a few. ihall have, any fpiritual good Thing, but what was bequeathed to him by Chrifr's Will and Tef– IV. A TefratoramongMen can– not enjoy or poffefs that Kingdom, Efrate, or Inheritance himfelf, af– ter he hath given it away to others, and fettled them in Poffeffion. V. A Tefrator amonglt Men, commits his Ja[l: Will and Tefra– {llept to Men to be fulfilled. VI. The bell: Legacies Telta– tors among Men bequeath, are but earthly and temporal Things. tamenr. IV. Chrifr, the fpiritual Tefrator, though he hath given away all that he hath, and gives the Poffeffion to Believers by his lafr Will and Tefia– ment; yet is Co-heir of the fame Kingdom and Glory, and fhall polfefs it together with them. V. Chrifr, the fpiritual Teitator, furrogates his Spirit, in his Abfence, and after his Death, to fee his Will executed in all Points, and to give real and atlual Poffeffion of all his Covenant– Bleffings, unto 'them to whom they are given. VI. The Legacies Chrifr bequeaths are [pi– ritual, Things of a high and moft fublime Nature, As all Things are given to Chrifr the Mediator, fo all that he is or hath, he parts with freely to his faithful Followers; the Graces of the Spirit, Adoption, Pardon of Sin, Peace of Confcience, precious Promifes; in a Word, all Things that appertain to the Life that now is, and to that which is to come: All is )'ours, and ye are Chrifl's, and Chrifl is God's, r Cor. iii. 22, 23. I N F E R E N C E ~ I . THIS exceedingly fi1ews forth the Grace and Love of Chrifi to Sinners, in that he fhou!d alrume Man's Nature, and become liable to Death and Mortality; what marvellous Condefceniion is here, that he fhould at\ or do a~y Thing in Contemplation of Death, and be a Tefrator, and yet could not fee Corruption, the Grave could not keep him; and yet refufed not to fubmit unto Death, and thereby through the Spirit he might convey a legal Right and Poffeffion to us of eternal Life? 2. From
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