A47465:736
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.
2. But it did not so fully commence in the actual dispensation thereof, until Christ put an end to the Covenant of Works; then it was ⟨p. 171⟩(as you have heard) established; He took away the first, that he might establish the second.
II. As to those who were included in it; they were all the Elect, or all the Seed of Christ, or all that he, as a public Head, represented, and no more. True, the whole World receives many external Blessings by virtue of it, (for the Elect sake;) for Jesus Christ is their Great Landlord, and Glorious Sovereign. The World is upheld by a new Title, i. e. from Christ as Mediator; for had not he interposed between God and it, the whole visible Fabric doubtless had been dissolved, and the whole Race of Mankind lost for ever.
II. As to those who were included in it; they were all the Elect, or all the Seed of Christ, or all that he, as a publick Head, represented, and no more. True, the whole World receives many external Blessings by virtue of it, (for the Elect sake;) for Jesus Christ is their Great Landlord, and Glorious Sovereign. The World is upheld by a new Title, i. e. from Christ as Mediator; for had not he interposed between God and it, the whole visible Fabrick doubtless had been dissolved, and the whole Race of Mankind lost for ever.
III. That which is required, in order to actual Interest in, and Possession of the Sacred Blessings of this Covenant, and the Peace thereof, is Union with Christ:1 I will cause you to pass under the Rod, and bring you into the Bonds of the Covenant. Under the Rod, God brings Sinners under Convictions, that wounds like a Rod, and makes them pass under the Yoke, i.e. he Marries them to his Son, and so brings them into the Covenant. Sinners, by Faith, take hold of this Covenant, and Christ being given to them, they also give themselves to him, to be his, and no more their own, but the Lords; they take God to be their God, and Christ to be their Saviour, and so come to possess the Blessings of the Covenant, and the Peace thereof.