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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.
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.
But the Covenant of Grace primarily was made with our Lord Jesus Christ, or betwixt God the Father, and God the Son as Mediator, in the Name and behalf of all God's Elect, he being set up from Everlasting, as their Covenanting Head.
II. The Covenant of Works was made with Man, without a Surety; Adam, in his own Person, for himself, and for all his Seed, being obliged to perform perfect Obedience, or live and sin not; yet had he none to engage to God, or to undertake for him that he should thus do: But the Covenant of Grace and Reconciliation was made solely upon the Undertaking or Suretyship of our Lord Jesus Christ; true, he was obliged to perform perfect Obedience to the same Holy Law of God, which Adam (and we in him) was required to do; yet it is said, That Christ was made a Surety of a better Covenant;1 and that not only in respect of the Promises thereof, ⟨p. 178⟩which are better Promises, but also in regard of the Oath of God, which renders this Covenant firm, together with Christ's Ability, and Faithfulness to perform all the Conditions thereof, and it being a full and free Covenant, and also ratified by the Death of Christ.
II. The Covenant of Works was made with Man, without a Surety; Adam, in his own Person, for himself, and for all his Seed, being obliged to perform perfect Obedience, or live and sin not; yet had he none to engage to God, or to undertake for him that he should thus do: But the Covenant of Grace and Reconciliation was made solely upon the Ʋndertaking or Suretiship of our Lord Jesus Christ; true, he was obliged to perform perfect Obedience to the same Holy Law of God, which Adam (and we in him) was required to do; yet it is said, That Christ was made a Surety of a better Covenant;