A47465:856
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.
II. A seasonable Covenant, in respect of the Revelation or Manifestation of it; even just as Adam had sinned, and when Divine Justice was ready to lift up his direful Axe of Divine Vengeance: How seasonable is it for a poor condemned Criminal to hear of a Pardon, just when he is brought to the place of Execution; and the Halter is put about his Neck, or the Axe lifted up to Cut off his Head?
II. A seasonable Covenant, in respect of the Revelation or Manifestation of it; even just as Adam had sinned, and when Divine Justice was ready to lift up his direful Ax of Divine Vengeance: How seasonable is it for a poor condemned Criminal to hear of a Pardon, just when he is brought to the place of Execution; and the Halter is put about his Neck, or the Ax lifted up to Cut off his Head?
III. It is a seasonable Covenant, in respect ⟨p. 199⟩to the application of the blessings thereof to a poor Sinner.
1. 'Tis by the Spirit applied, when the sinner sees he is Condemned, being under the sense of Sin, Wrath and Condemnation, beholding himself just dropping into Hell; then this Covenant is opened, and the blessing of free Justification, and Pardon is applied.
1. 'Tis by the Spirit applyed, when the sinner sees he is Condemned, being under the sense of Sin, Wrath and Condemnation, beholding himself just dropping into Hell; then this Covenant is opened, and the blessing of free Justification, and Pardon is applied.