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The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…
The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons lately preached, in which the errors of the present day about reconciliation and justification are detected / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by S. Bridge, 1698
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There is yet one great Blessing, which is included in the former, viz. That as God gives himself to be our God, so he hath promised we shall be his People;1 this Grant and Privilege is in the Covenant; And I will be their God, and they shall be my People, compared with Heb. 8.10. And I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People unto me.
There is yet one great Blessing, which is included in the former, viz. That as God gives himself to be our God, so he hath promised we shall be his People;1 this Grant and Priviledge is in the Covenant; And I will be their God, and they shall be my People, compared with Heb. 8.10. And I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People unto me.
- 1Believers are God's People by Virtue of the Covenant of Peace. Jer. 31.33. Five things premised.
First, Let me by way of premise Note here four or five Things.
1. That this is a most gracious, high, and sublime Privilege, (viz.) God to be our God is the first; and this is comprehended in it also as the second, and next in order to be esteemed by us, i. e. we shall be his People.