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

3. And seeing Man was a Rebel, and in Arms against God, and filled with Rage and ⟨p. 94⟩Madness, and having Enmity in his Mind against God,¹ Being alienated from the Life of God: Jesus Christ, as our Surety, engaged to change the Hearts of all he undertook for, and bring them to accept of Terms of Peace, through the Blood of his Cross; I say, he engaged to God to bring home all that were given to him.² Hence he says, Them I must bring, and they shall hear my Voice: He must bring them because of the Covenant he had made with God the Father; and upon the Consideration of that Obligation, he laid himself under, as their Surety. He must Circumcise our Hearts to love the Lord our God;³ for Christ also hath once suffered for Sins, the Just for the Unjust, that he might bring us to God.

3. And seeing Man was a Rebel, and in Arms against God, and filled with Rage and ⟨p. 94⟩Madness, and having Enmity in his Mind against God,¹ Being alienated from the Life of God: Jesus Christ, as our Surety, engaged to change the Hearts of all he undertook for, and bring them to accept of Terms of Peace, through the Blood of his Cross; I say, he ingaged to God to bring home all that were given to him.² Hence he says, Them I must bring, and they shall hear my Voice: He must bring them because of the Covenant he had made with God the Father; and upon the Consideration of that Obligation, he laid himself under, as their Surety. He must Circumcise our Hearts to love the Lord our God;³ for Christ also hath once suffered for Sins, the Just for the Ʋnjust, that he might bring us to God.