The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

1. Because God hath not revealed,¹ or made known any other way by which our Peace could be made, but by a Mediator, I do not say, that God could not any other way make our Peace, but that he could not in regard of his own Honour (so far as it appeareth unto us.) Moreover, if God hath not made known any other way, then there is no other way for us to obtain Peace with him: But no other way is made known.

1. Because God hath not revealed,¹ or made known any other way by which our Peace could be made, but by a Mediator, I do not say, that God could not any other way make our Peace, but that he could not in reguard of his own Honour (so far as it appeareth unto us.) Moreover, if God hath not made known any other way, then there is no other way for us to obtain Peace with him: But no other way is made known.

1. 1The necessity of a Mediator of the Covenant of Peace, and that Christ is he.

2. There could be no other way, as we can conceive, because the breach that was between God and us, must be made up by a full satisfaction to the Law and Justice of God, God being Just as well as Gracious; and hence one end why Christ was made a propitiation through Faith in his blood, ¹was To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, v. 25. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness, that he might be ⟨p. 36⟩just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus, vers. 26. that is, That no wrong might be done to the Essential Purity of God's Nature, or Rectitude of his Will; nor yet to his immediate Justice, by which he cannot but hate Sin, and for it require a Satisfaction.