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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
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.
Object. We do not plead for an absolute Universal Redemption, but for a Conditional one; that is, so that if all Repent, act Faith, are Regenerated, obey Christ, and are Holy and continue so to the End, they shall be saved.
Object. We do not plead for an absolute Ʋniversal Redemption, but for a Conditional one; that is, so that if all Repent, act Faith, are Regenerated, obey Christ, and are Holy and continue so to the End, they shall be saved.
Answ. Is this Gospel? Doth the Proclamation of Peace run thus?
1. I argue then that Christ is but a Conditional Redeemer, and hath only made a Conditional Peace; i. e. he made our Peace, and paid our Debts upon this Condition, viz. That we Repent, change our own Hearts, or are Regenerated, and get Faith, and sincere Obedience, and continue Holy and Obedient to the end.
2. Moreover, this Notion of a Conditional Peace, and Redemption, renders our Salvation not to be of God's Free Grace alone, through that Redemption that is in Jesus Christ, but that we procure our Peace, or make it with God our selves, with our own Money, i. e. by