The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

Reverend Charnock says, Christ is the surety of the Covenant of Grace, but the Covenant of Redemption had no surety, the Father and the Son trusted one another; the Covenant of Redemption was not Confirmed by Blood, &c.

Answ. Had God only entered into Covenant with Christ, as a single Person and for himself, there had been no need of a surety; but since he entered into that Covenant as a public person, and that for broken and fallen ⟨p. 214⟩mankind, whom God regarded not, their Credit being for ever gone; there was a necessity of Christ's suretyship in that said Covenant, in respect had to those things, which Christ was to do for us, and also work in us; which he then engaged to the Father to perform, and if the Covenant of Redemption from Sin and Wrath was not confirmed by the Blood of that Covenant, one grand part of our safety and security is gone for ever.

Answ. Had God only entred into Covenant with Christ, as a single Person and for himself, there had been no need of a surety; but since he entred into that Covenant as a publick person, and that for broken and fallen ⟨p. 214⟩mankind, whom God regarded not, their Credit being for ever gone; there was a necessity of Christ's suretyship in that said Covenant, in respect had to those things, which Christ was to do for us, and also work in us; which he then engaged to the Father to perform, and if the Covenant of Redemption from Sin and Wrath was not confirmed by the Blood of that Covenant, one grand part of our safety and security is gone for ever.

My Brethren, Our Lord Jesus Christ when he first entered into the Covenant with the Father,