A47465:517
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.
I. Because the Gospel only shows us how Reconciliation is made between an offended God, and offending Creatures; and no otherways is this revealed, or made known to Men.
I. Because the Gospel only shews us how Reconciliation is made between an offended God, and offending Creatures; and no otherways is this revealed, or made known to Men.
II. Because God, my Brethren, is hereby declared to be reconciled or pacified towards Sinners,1 even in Jesus Christ; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the World to himself, not imputing their Trespasses unto them. Some would have this extend to all the World universally, but then all would be saved; for if all were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son, they shall much more be saved by his Life; for so Paul argues in respect of all them that God by the Death of his Son,2 was reconciled to; For if when we were Enemies, we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his Life. If God gave us the great Gift, he will much more give the lesser Gift, i. e. Faith and Perseverance; compare this with Rom. 8.32. My Brethren, 'tis the same [All,] or World that Christ promised that he would draw to him, and that he takes away the Sin of.3 Moreover, if he had reconciled the whole World to God,4 he would have prayed for the whole World, but that he saith he did not, yet he prayed for all he died for.