A47465:673
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.
My Brethren, observe, that the Salvation […] by Christ was antecedent to our Faith, and both were to be performed for us by our Surety; that is, he was as much obliged to give us Faith, or by his Spirit to apply his Blood, as to pour it forth upon the Cross for us; tho he has ordained the Preaching of the Gospel as an Instrument in and by the Spirit, to work it in our Souls.
My Brethren, observe, that the Salvation 〈…〉 by Christ was antecedent to our Faith, and both were to be performed for us by our Surety; that is, he was as much obliged to give us Faith, or by his Spirit to apply his Blood, as to pour it forth upon the Cross for us; tho he has ordained the Preaching of the Gospel as an Instrument in and by the Spirit, to work it in our Souls.
Secondly, This Proclamation,1 it is an Universal Proclamation.
- 1The Proclamation is Universal.The Proclamation is Ʋniversal.
1. Peace and glad Tidings is to be preached or proclaimed to all the World; Go ye therefore into all the World, 1and Preach the Gospel to every Creature. What is this Gospel? why Peace by Jesus Christ, or that God is reconciled, his Justice satisfied, and his Wrath appeased by the Sacrifice and Obedience of his Son, that being the meritorious, or procuring Cause thereof, and Christ requires them, commandeth them to believe this? Believe what? Why that God in Christ, through his Death, was reconciled to us when we were Ungodly;