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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.
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.
But the Covenant of Grace admits of a Substitute, or of a Surety, to keep the Law for us; and God accepteth of his Obedience and Suffering as imputed to us, to our free Discharge and Justification in his Sight: And hence the Gospel is called, The Ministration of the Spirit, 1and Life.
Thus the Covenant of Peace, is the Covenant of Grace.