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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
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.
I. Witness how freely he offered himself to the Father, in our behalf, to treat about, and yield to the terms of, and sign this Blessed Covenant of Peace.
II. Witness the Glory he was willing to leave, in order to his actual accomplishment thereof.
III. Witness the long Journey he took from Heaven to Earth, that he might reconcile God and Man.
IV. Witness his great Abasement, and wonderful Condescension for being in the For• of God, 1he thought it not Robbery to be equal wi•• God: (not equal by a delegated Power from God for in Essence he is Co-equal, Co-essential, and Co-eternal with the Father,) but made himself of […] Reputation, and took upon him the Form of a Servant, and was made in the likeness of sinful Man his Condescension was free, and voluntary, o unconstrained (unless it was by Love) he suffered