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The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature…
The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature of the covenant of grace opened in a sermon preached January the 29th, at the funeral of Mr. Henry Forty, late pastor of a Church of Christ, at Abingdon, in the county of Berks, who departed this life Jan. 25th 1692/3 and was interred at Southwark ... : to which is added, An elegy on the death of the said minister / by Benjamin Keach ...The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature of the covenant of grace opened in a sermon preached January the 29th, at the funeral of Mr. Henry Forty, late pastor of a Church of Christ, at Abingdon, in the county of Berks, who departed this life Jan. 25th 1692/3 and was interr'd at Southwark ... : to which is added, An elegy on the death of the said minister / by Benjamine Keach ...
London: printed for H. Barnard, 1693
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Answ. There are divers Disparities between other Testators and the Testatorship of Christ.
1. A Testator among Men, cannot be a Witness to his own last Will and Testament; but so is Christ: he is given by the Father for a Witness to the People of all those Gospel or Covenant-Blessings, he himself a Testator of his own last Will and Testament bequeathed to all Believers• he witnesseth these things are his Will, as well as the Father's, and he is the true and faithful Witness.
2. A Testator among Men, cannot Enjoy or Possess that Kingdom▪ Estate or Inheritance himself after his Death, which he hath given away▪ but Christ the Spiritual Testator, tho' he hath given the Possession of Glory, &c. to Believers by his last Will and Testament; yet is he a Co•Heir of the same Glory and blessed Inheritance himself, and shall possess it jointly with them.
2. A Testator among Men, cannot Enjoy or Possess that Kingdom▪ Estate or Inheritance himself after his Death, which he hath given away▪ but Christ the Spiritual Testator, tho' he hath given the Possession of Glory, &c. to Believers by his last Will and Testament; yet is he a Co•Heir of the same Glory and blessed Inheritance himself, and shall possess it joyntly with them.