°2 7 2 C(cups of the New Covenant. r. In that the Covenant, as the Grace and Glory ofit were prepared in the Counfel of God, as the Terms of it, was :fixed in the Covenant of the Mediator, and as it was decla- red in the Promife, was confirmed, ratified, and made irrevo- cable thereby. This our Apoflle infifls upon at large, Heb. 9. 15,16,17 , 18, 19, 20. And he compares his Blood in his Death and Sacrifice of himfelf, unto the Sacrifices and their Blood whereby the Old Covenant was confirmed, purified, dedicated or eílablifhed, ver. i 8, 19. Now thefe Sacrifices did not procure that Covenant, or prevail with God to enter into it 5 but only ratified and confirmed it 5 and this was done in the New Covenant by the Blood of Chrift. 2. He thereby underwent and performed all that which in the Righteoufnefs and Wifdom of God was required, that the Efétls, Fruits, Benefits and Grace, intended, defigned, and prepared in the New Covenant might be effe&ually ac- complifhed, and communicated unto fanners. Hence although he procured not the Covenant for us by his death, yet he was in his Perfon, Mediation, Life and Death, the only caufe and means whereby the whole Grace of the Covenant is made fFc tual unto us. For, 3. All the Benefits of it were procured by him 5 that is, all the Grace, Mercy, Priviledges and Glory that God bath pre- pared in the Counfel of his Will, that were fixed as unto the way of this communication in the Covenant of the Mediator, and propofed in the Promifes of it, are purchafed, merited, and procured by his Death 5 and effectually communicated or applied unto all the Covenanters by virtue thereof, with others of his Mediatory Ans. And this is much more an emi- nent procuring of the New Covenant, than what is pretended about the procurement of its Terms and Conditions. For if he fhould have procured no more but this, if we owe this only unto his Mediation, that God would thereon, or did grant and eflablith this Rule, Law, and Promife, that who- ever
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