A47465:235
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.
(3.) Not to work for Life, but from Life, i. e. from a Principle of Life wrought in the Soul, not to change one Work or Act of the Creature in Justification to another Work or Act of the Creature; I mean not to renounce all Works of the Law in point of Justification, and to include Gospel-works, or Faith and Obedience as part of our Justifying Righteousness before God;1 no, no, but to exclude all manner of Works, Faith and Obedience whatsoever,2 and to rest upon Christ alone, or on his Righteousness exclusive of all the Creature doth, or can do.
- 1Rom. 11.6.
- 2Rom. 4.45.
(4.) And tho the Soul sees he is already Justified,1 and accepted in the Beloved, and for ever delivered from Wrath and Condemnation; yet to live a Holy Life and renounce all Sin and Iniquity from a Principle of Faith;2 and because Sin is so hateful unto God,3 and so abominable in his Sight, and because Christ is his Lord, therefore to do all things whatsoever he commandeth him,4 and all this in Love to Christ, not to seek his Acceptance and Justification by the Worth of his Faith and Obedience, but in ⟨p. 61⟩