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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.
2. When it was first revealed, it was expressed by his Person,1 viz. The Seed of the Woman, nothing else is mentioned there, yet this contains the first Revelation of this Covenant to Fallen Man: And what was the Covenant of Grace as revealed to Abraham, but Jesus Christ;2 In thy Seed shall all the Kindreds of the Earth be Blessed. Thus Christ is represented as the Sum of the Covenant.
3. Christ is the Covenant primarily (as the same Author notes) and by Propriety; As Fire is hot for it self, and all things hot for it, and by participation: With Christ the Covenant was made as the chief Party; with Believers it was made in Subordination to him; with him it was made at first Hand, with us at second Hand. Now, Brethren, this certainly is true, therefore all Promises were made first to Christ, and first fulfilled to him, and all Acts of God's Love terminate first upon him, and come to us through him, Who has made us accepted in the Beloved: 1Had not God's Love been sixth first on him as Mediator, it had never run out to us; all Covenant-Blessings ⟨p. 295⟩are in him;2 Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus. Christ, as our Head, is the Repository, or Seat of all Divine Blessings. Christ is the Jewel, the Riches, or the Sum of all things in the Covenant, as Life, Righteousness, Pardon, Peace, &c. And he that receives this Jewel, receives all things with him. From hence he is compared to a Cluster of Camphire.