A47465:760
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.
4. Because God will have the Covenant of Peace to be sure to all the Seed, i. e. to all his People; but if it were not of Grace alone, it would not be sure, but an Uncertain and Mutable ⟨p. 177⟩Covenant, or on such Conditions that might, or might not be performed.
Secondly, I shall show you,1 that the Covenant of Peace, is the Covenant of Grace as compared with, or in opposition to the Covenant of Works: My purpose herein is to show you the vast difference betwixt the Covenant of Grace, and the Covenant of Works.
Secondly, I shall shew you,1 that the Covenant of Peace, is the Covenant of Grace as compared with, or in opposition to the Covenant of Works: My purpose herein is to shew you the vast difference betwixt the Covenant of Grace, and the Covenant of Works.
- 1The great difference betwixt the Covenant of Works, & the Covenant of Grace opened.
I. The Covenant of Works was made with Man, or betwixt God and the first Adam: Adam was set up as the common Head, or Representative of all his Seed, and he was obliged to perform all the Conditions in his own Person in that Covenant.