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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.
7. The Elect are actually the Lord's People, by the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit, or by virtue of their Mystical Union with Christ by the Spirit, which is the Bond of this Union on Christ's part; and by this means we come to chose Jesus Christ as the only Object of our Affection, and Blessed Bridegroom of our Souls; and also hereby we take God to be our God, and thus we are actually and personally brought into this Relation to him, in which sense, and in respect of these and the two last things mentioned, we were not his People before; for notwithstanding the Covenant Agreement of Parents, or a Marriage by Proxy, betwixt great Persons, yet they must after that actually and personally be Married together, before they can enjoy each other, or properly be said to be Man and Wife: And so, my Brethren, it is here, for notwithstanding the Decree and Purpose of God, and his eternal Compact and Donation; and also notwithstanding the Purchase of Christ, yet till by the Spirit we are united to Christ, and do believe in ⟨p. 246⟩him, close in and embrace him, and enter into an actual Covenant with God in and by Jesus Christ, we cannot be said to be properly God's People; for before this we were the Children of Wrath, 1and the Slaves of Sin and Satan: But so much to the first thing proposed.
7. The Elect are actually the Lord's People, by the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit, or by virtue of their Mystical Ʋnion with Christ by the Spirit, which is the Bond of this Union on Christ's part; and by this means we come to chose Jesus Christ as the only Object of our Affection, and Blessed Bridegroom of our Souls; and also hereby we take God to be our God, and thus we are actually and personally brought into this Relation to him, in which sense, and in respect of these and the two last things mentioned, we were not his People before; for notwithstanding the Covenant Agreement of Parents, or a Marriage by Proxy, betwixt great Persons, yet they must after that actually and personally be Married together, before they can injoy each other, or properly be said to be Man and Wife: And so, my Brethren, it is here, for notwithstanding the Decree and Purpose of God, and his eternal Compact and Donation; and also notwithstanding the Purchase of Christ, yet till by the Spirit we are united to Christ, and do believe in ⟨p. 246⟩