A47465:426
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.
Had Man found the Surety, it had been otherwise.
2. Because the Surety being the only begotten Son of God, it is a farther Demonstration of Infinite Love and Favour to us, in that God should substitute him in our stead, and dispense with the rigorous Action of Satisfaction from us, and take it from our Surety, as put in our Law-place.
2. Because the Surety being the only begotten Son of God, it is a farther Demonstration of Infinite Love and Favour to us, in that God should substitute him in our stead, and dispence with the rigorous Action of Satisfaction from us, and take it from our Surety, as put in our Law-place.
3. Because God, that he might work about our Discharge, in a way of Grace and Mercy, to the Honour of his Justice, &c. made his own Son a Sacrifice for our Sins.
4. Because that Interest we have in that Redemption, Pardon, Peace, and Reconciliation by Christ's Undertakings, is freely bestowed on us, as an Act of God's Sovereign Grace and Goodness, for as Christ purchased all Grace for us, so as an Act of God's Favour, and Christ's Purchase and Merits, he gives us the Spirit and Faith, in order to our actual Interest in all Covenant Blessings; so that although it all is in a way of Justice as to Christ, yet it is all in a way of Mercy and Free-Grace as to us.