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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.
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.
But the Covenant of Grace, as to us, consisteth only of Free Promises. Hence the Elect are called,1 The Children of the Promise—Unto Abraham, and his Seed, were the Promises made: Now we Brethren, as Isaac was, 2are Children of the Promise. And hence the Covenant of Grace is called, The Covenants of Promise.3
But the Covenant of Grace, as to us, consisteth only of Free Promises. Hence the Elect are called,1 The Children of the Promise—Ʋnto Abraham, and his Seed, were the Promises made: Now we Brethren, as Isaac was, 2are Children of the Promise. And hence the Covenant of Grace is called, The Covenants of Promise.