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Med. 10. the last Meditation is this, when you come to this, seeing the bread broken, and the wine poured out, you have an occasion to meditate of the whole new Covenant, the Covenant of grace that God hath made with sinners; for so the words of institution are, This is the Cup of the new Testament: the new Testament which is all one with the new Covenant, only different in this particular; it contains the substance of the new Covenant, but called Testament in this regard; to show that the Lord doth do all in the new Covenant, that is, he doth not only promise such and such mercies upon condition of our believing and repenting, but he doth work believing and repenting, and works grace, and therefore the same thing that is sometime called a Covenant, is called a Testament; that is the will of God wherein the Lord doth bequeath his rich legacies to his Children, to those that shall be eternally saved, so that all the good things in the Covenant of grace they are bequeathed by way of Testament as well as Covenant, and this is a mighty comfortable meditation to the Saints; for indeed when they look upon the way of the Gospel as in a way of Covenant, why then they think this, this requires somewhat of our parts to be done, and indeed God will keep Covenant on his part, but it may be we shall not keep Covenant on ours, and so we may fail at last; but now when thou lookest upon all the good things in the Gospel dispensed in the way of a Testament, that is the will of God, the legacies that God doth bequeath to his servants, this is a mighty comfort to the soul, that all the precious things of the Gospel come to me in the way of a Testament, and that's the meaning of the new Testament, that is, the mercies of God in Christ coming now in the way of another administration, then they did before; ⟨p. 271⟩tis not only new in respect of the Covenant of works that God made with Adam, but new in respect of the administration; our forefathers, the Patriarchs, they had the same thing in substance, but administered in a darker way, and many differences there are; but now when we hear of the new Testament, there is presented unto us all the riches of the Covenant of grace in the way of a legacy and in the administration of it with clearness, and with a great deal of mercy and goodness of God, the terror and harshness of the old administration being taken away.

Med. 10. the last Meditation is this, when you come to this, seeing the bread broken, and the wine powred out, you have an occasion to meditate of the whole new Covenant, the Covenant of grace that God hath made with sinners; for so the words of institution are, This is the Cup of the new Testament: the new Testament which is all one with the new Covenant, only different in this particular; it containes the substance of the new Covenant, but calld Testament in this regard; to shew that the Lord doth do all in the new Covenant, that is, he doth not only promise such and such mercies upon condition of our beleeving and repenting, but he doth work beleeving and repenting, and works grace, and therefore the same thing that is sometime cald a Covenant, is calld a Testament; that is the will of God wherein the Lord doth bequeath his rich legacies to his Children, to those that shall be eternally saved, so that all the good things in the Covenant of grace they are bequeathed by way of Testament as well as Covenant, and this is a mighty comfortable meditation to the Saints; for indeed when they look upon the way of the Gospell as in a way of Covenant, why then they thinke this, this requires somewhat of our parts to be done, and indeed God will keep Covenant on his part, but it may be we shall not keep Covenant on ours, and so we may faile at last; but now when thou lookest upon all the good things in the Gospel dispensed in the way of a Testament, that is the will of God, the legacies that God doth bequeath to his servants, this is a mighty comfort to the soule, that all the precious things of the Gospel come to mee in the way of a Testament, and thats the meaning of the new Testament, that is, the mercies of God in Christ comming now in the way of another administration, then they did before;