CHAPTER VII. 357 of righteousness, a prophet, an example of holiness, a high- priest, a sacrifice, a Saviour, an intercessor, a king, and a head of life to his body the church, both spiritual and eternal. III. As in this dispensation of Christ, revealed in the New Testament, we have a fuller and plainer discovery of our fallen state, our guilt and danger, our degenerate sinful natures, and our weakness to all that is good; so also we have much brighter manifestations made of the pardon of sin, and justification of our persons, the methods of its procurement by the obedience, sufferings and death of Christ, which made a proper atonement for sin, the adoption of us into the family of God, the sanctifi- cation of our natures by the influences of the Holy Spirit, to enable us to repent of sin, and Mortify it daily, togetherwith all our consolations in life, and hope in death. And besides all this, the future state both of saints and sinners, the resurrection of the body, the everlastinghappiness of good men, and the eternal misery of the wicked, are brought much nearer to our view, as motives to our duty, and support to our hope : And they are set much plainer before us in all the blessings and the terrors Of them, togéther with the duties of faith and love toward the Son of God our Redeemer. IV. As ',havealso before observed, that the whole system of natural duties, or the whole moral law, is taken into every edition of the covenant of grace, so in the New Testament also, or in the dispensation of christianity, it should not be forgotten, that we have a much larger, clearer, and fuller explication of the moral ,law in all the parts and precepts of it, with the more particular application of them to the occurrences of human life, and a more express notice, that they reacts to the thoughts and desires of the heart, as well as to words and actions : So that our love and duty to God, to our neighbours, and ourselves, was 'never so plainly and fully set forth, either by the light of reason, or by revelation, as it is in this last dispensation. This is sufficiently evident in the sermons of Christ, and in the writings of his apostles. To these I add also, the special exaltation of the duty of love to our neighbours, and forgiveness of injuries to a superior height!' in the gos- pel of Christ. Our love to one another is made the sign and token of our Christianity; and our love even to enemies is re- quired and enforced by the love of God to us, and an universal holiness ofheart and life, proceeding from love to God and man, is!'requently prescribed. V. Under this dispensation, almost all the former emblems of the covenant of grace, required of us as duties, are entirely left out and abrogated ; and tile chief, if not the only emblems, signs, or seals, required in it are baptism and the Lord's supper, which are usually called the two sacraments. This new covenant z 3
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