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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 3 › APPLICATION.
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It is not his bare Pleading, but it must be done by his bleeding or dying for us, or in our stead: And O how great was that Breach, which nothing could make up, but such a Bloody Sacrifice!
2. We also infer from hence, that God's Love to us in Christ is an amazing and wonderful Love, our Peace shall be made, tho it cost God the Blood of his own dear and beloved Son; God so loved the World, How was that?1 Who can conceive of the greatness of it? Even so as he gave his only begotten Son to die for us, even for his Enemies:2 God commended his Love towards us in that, while we were yet Sinners Christ died for us; for when we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son: Not that God was only reconcilable, but by that Sacrifice God was reconciled; our Faith doth not reconcile God to us, but we thereby receive the Atonement, or the Blessing of Peace and Reconciliation.
2. We also infer from hence, that God's Love to us in Christ is an amazing and wonderful Love, our Peace shall be made, tho it cost God the Blood of his own dear and beloved Son; God so loved the World, How was that?1 Who can conceive of the greatness of it? Even so as he gave his only begotten Son to die for us, even for his Enemies:2 God commended his Love towards us in that, while we were yet Sinners Christ died for us; for when we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son: Not that God was only reconcileable, but by that Sacrifice God was reconciled; our Faith doth not reconcile God to us, but we thereby receive the Atonement, or the Blessing of Peace and Reconciliation.
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