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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.
The Terms on which Peace is proclaimed, run thus, viz.
1. That whosoever it is that believeth, shall be saved: 1True, if Faith was not the Gift of God, but the Condition agreed on, as required of the Creature by his own power to act and exercise,2 it would not only be hard, but impossible, because Faith must be wrought in our ⟨p. 165⟩Hearts by the same Power that raised Christ from the Dead; but he that calls dead Lazarus to rise from the Dead, is able to quicken, and by his commanding Voice, to raise the Soul,3 dead in Sins and Trespasses: The Gospel in the Hand of the Spirit is a mighty Instrument of Christ's Power in the begetting or working of Faith in poor Sinners.
- 1The Terms of the Gospel opened
- 2Ephes. 1.19, 20.
- 3Eph. 2.2.
2. The Proclamation runs to him that thirsteth: Oh, every one that thirsteth come to the Waters,