420 P etfauz fait».' to ble(s the Lord for it ? After fuch hanfels of Heaven and Glory, fhould he yet doubt and fay, I cannot enter, when he is there already in the beginnings and firfl- fruits thereof? No- thing is more unreafonable. He knows in him - felf, by the Graces and Comforts in his own heart, That he hath a part in Heaven and Sal- vation. In the lall place, The Nature of the Sacra- ments, which are Seals of the. Covenant, evinces this Truth. In the Gofpel we have Gods Hand, but in the Sacraments his Seal alto. In the Gofpel, Pardon and Salvation are let forth in general Promifes; but in the Sacraments, they are Sealed up to this and that man in particu- lar. Circumcifion is called, The Seal of Righ teoufneI , Rom. ç. r i ; and by the Hebrew Do- 6tors, The Seal of the holy God : And Baptifm, which fucceeds, and as Evangelical tranfcends it, muff be as much and more. So Sealing Pardon and Salvation to Believers, that there" follows the anfiner of a good Confcience towards God, I Pet. 3.2 I , or fuch a Confcience, as can with an holy confidence interrogate God him - felfin force fiìch terms as thefe; Did not Chrift purchafe Pardon and Salvation for me ? Have I not a (hare and intereft in them ? Yes affured- ly, there is no doubt of it. The Paf over fi- gprcd out Chritt the true Lamb, who was roafled in the, Fire of his Fathers Wrath to take away Sin ; and the fprinkling ofthe Blood on the Door-pofis, pointed out the Applicati- on of Chrifts Blood to the Confciences of Be- lievers
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