A view of the covenant of grace - Boston - XIV - Head IV continued

Required reading
A view of the covenant of grace by Thomas Boston (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue the Fourth Head by reading up to the heading 'II. Christ the testator of the covenant'.

My summary
Today we continue the fourth head by beginning to consider the nature of the administration of the covenant of grace.

Boston's first point under this heading is that Christ is the trustee of the covenant. 

Christ is shown to be the trustee because:
(i) the unseen guard of the covenant is under his hand;
(ii) the quickening spirit of the covenant is in him;
(iii) the righteousness of the covenant is in him;
(iv) the new covenant right to God is in his person as mediator;
(v) the covenant fulness of the Spirit of sanctification is in him whereby to make sinners holy;
(vi) the establishing grace of the covenant is in him;
(vii) the temporal things of the covenant are all in his hand;
(viii) the covenant-fulness of power over death is in his hand;
(ix) the eternal consummate happiness of the covenant is in his hand.

What grabbed me
I liked Boston's comment about death and Christ: 'Death goes through the world as a mighty conqueror, whom none is able to resist ; the grave follows, and none can keep back its prey, nor cause it to give it up again. But the Mediator hath an effectual check upon them both. They are not absolute potentates, as mighty as they are: there is one above them, to whose orders they must precisely stick. Death may indeed enter in within the boundaries of the covenant, and carry off the covenant people as well as others: but at the border it must drop its fling, and enter without it; for the power of death is now in Christ's hand, and he will not softer it to enter there with it. And the time cometh, wherein he will say to the grave, Give up; and then the bars thereof will be broken asunder, the gates thereof fly open, and it will deliver up to him its lodgers: for he is intrusted as Administrator of the covenant, with full power over death and the grave.'

Our Lord is victorious, even over death!

Next week's reading
Continue the Fourth Head by reading up to the heading 'III. Christ the prophet of the covenant'.

Now it's your turn
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