Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

Hence 2. The Believers Right unto, and interest in those Blessings which only the new covenant makes mention of, is signified and sealed in this Ordinance. Christ with his saving benefits is a new covenant blessing. The first covenant said nothing of a Saviour: it is the covenant of Grace only, that revealeth him to the miserable children of men. And Indeed Christ is the substance of the new covenant: Hence is he called the Covenant, Isaf. 4 5.6. not only in that he is the great Patentee in that Royal Character of the new covenant; the original Grant is to him; but also, because he is the sum and substance thereof. Have Christ, and have All, Col. 3. 11. But now Christ is exhibited in this Ordinance of the Supper; and the Believers right unto and everlasting interest in the Lord Jesus, is sealed and confirmed to him, when he doth partake therein. The Lord saith to him, as truly As thou dost take the holy bread in thy hands and eat it, the blessed cup and drink of it, so truly is Christ with all his merits righteousness and salvation thine. Eat him and thou shalt live by him, Joh. 6. 57. Remission ⟨p. 129⟩mission of sins, is a new covenant blessing, Jer. 32. 31,34. And it is exhibited and sealed to the worthy Receiver, in and by this Ordinance, Therefore when Christ did first Institute it, some of the words which he spake were these, This is my blood of the New-Testament, which is shed for many for the Remission of sins, Mat. 26. 28. As verily as a man doth receive the bread and the cup, (if he be a worthy Communicant) so verily doth the Lord say to him from Heaven, all thy sins are forgiven, though they have been many and great they are all washed away in the blood of Christ. I have pardoned them all saith the Lord. When a Believer hath been at the Sacrament; he hath the pardon of all his Transgressions confirmed to him under the Seal of Heaven.