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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.
I. It is a full Covenant in respect of Satisfaction, Merit and Righteousness; my Brethren, neither Divine Justice, nor the Law of God can require any more than what Christ hath by his Active, and Passive Obedience paid: God saith,1 This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Christ is called the Sun of Righteousness, 2denoting that fullness of Righteousness which is in him as Mediator; What is fuller of light than the Sun? And who is fuller of Righteousness than Jesus Christ? And as the Sun communicates its Light to all the Earth, even so Christ communicates his Righteousness to all the Elect; i. e. His Righteousness is imputed to all that Believe: (not the Effects of his Righteousness) but his Active and Passive Obedience, is the Material cause of our Justification, and the Imputation of it, is the formal cause thereof, and from him by the Spirit an Inherent Righteousness is also infused into the whole Body (to whom he is a Head of Influence) to their Sanctification.
II. This Covenant is a full Covenant; because, in it, or in Christ (who is the Sum of the Covenant) there is a fullness of Sufficiency: and in the application of it by the Spirit, There is a fullness of Efficacy to all the Elect, He is the Head of the Body, the Church, 1the Fullness of him that filleth all in all.
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