A47465:767
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.
IV. The Covenant of Works, tho it required perfect Obedience, Personally to be performed by the Creature; yet it gave no strength to perform what it commanded.
1. But in the Covenant of Peace whatsoever God's Law required of us to our Justification in his Sight, Christ covenanted and performed it ⟨p. 179⟩for us, and we in him. Hence the Apostle saith,1 That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us: In us, Christ and Believers are here represented but as one Person; because what he did, we are said to do in him; Paul can't refer in this place to our inherent Sanctification, for so no Believer can fulfil the Law, because his best Works and Sanctification are imperfect.
- 1Rom. 8.3.
2. Moreover, whatsoever Duties God requires of us as to our actual Justification, in our own Consciences, and as to our Sanctifica-also, he hath promised to give us his Spirit to perform and work in us.