A47465:784
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.
Note, 'Tis called Covenants, in respect of the divers Revelations, or Declarations of it, as to Adam, Abraham, David, &c. and as revealed in the Gospel, tho it is but one and the same Covenant: True, it may differ in some Accidents, but in Substance it was the same, viz. Jesus Christ promised, and Free Justification through him,1 Is the Law against the Promises? That is, Is the Law, as given in Mount Sinai against the Covenant of Grace? No, but given in Subserviency thereunto; or as leading to it by discovering the Evil of Sin, and the absolute Necessity of Christ's perfect Obedience thereunto in our stead.
IX. The first Covenant required perfect Obedience to the Law in every Man's own Person, ⟨p. 182⟩in respect to their Justification at God's Bar, by which means, through Man's Weakness, and Inability to perform it, 'tis called, The Killing Letter;1 The Letter kills—for Sin taking occasion by the Commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me— Sin revived, 2and I dyed: That is, as to any hope of Life by the Law.