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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.
But the Covenant of Grace represents God in Christ,1 a Reconciled Father; This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; Fury is not in me: There is no Fury in God, no Wrath, ⟨p. 181⟩no Condemnation to any that believe,2 or that are in Jesus Christ.
- 1Matt. 3.17 Isa. 27.4.
- 2Rom. 18.1.
VIII. The Covenant of Works consisted all in Precepts, in Commands which were partly Moral, and partly Ceremonial; the latter being numerous, some speak of more than three Hundred Precepts that were enjoined on the People; for tho the Ceremonial Law shadowed the Gospel, yet Paul counts it part of the first Covenant: See Heb. 9.1. Yet I deny not, but that there was much Grace held forth in it.
VIII. The Covenant of Works consisted all in Precepts, in Commands which were partly Moral, and partly Ceremonial; the latter being numerous, some speak of more than three Hundred Precepts that were injoyned on the People; for tho the Ceremonial Law shadowed the Gospel, yet Paul counts it part of the first Covenant: See Heb. 9.1. Yet I deny not, but that there was much Grace held forth in it.