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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
THE DISPLAY OF Glorious Grace OR THE Covenant of Peace Opened: In S… › Sermon 2
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(3.) Had Christ not been God-man, how could there been two Parties Covenanting with each other about making of our Peace: For Christ-God, the second Person, could not constitute a Party distinct from God, considered essentially one: I and my Father are one;1 but a Mediator is not a Mediator of one, but God is one: 2Therefore the Covenant of Peace was made with Christ as God-man, God in our Nature.
- 1Ark of the Covenant, p. 76.
- 2Joh. 10.30
I shall now proceed to show you what a Mediator signifies, and so open the Work of Christ as Mediator.
I shall now proceed to shew you what a Mediator signifies, and so open the Work of Christ as Mediator.
1. A Mediator properly signifies a Midler, a middle Man, a Reconciler,1 or a Days Man that lays his Hands upon both, [Greek or Hebrew], one that interposeth, to make up the Breach, or Difference that is between disagreeing Parties: Now Jesus Christ is a middle Person, and fit every ways to be a Mediator betwixt God and Man, he is at an equal distance, and equally drawing near to, ⟨p. 46⟩