A47465:913
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. One part as it refers to Christ, viz. he is the Surety and we the Debtors whom he engaged for; his money and not ours pays all, and makes satisfaction to God. Christ is the Redeemer in this Covenant, and we the Redeemed. Christ is the Saviour, and we the Saved.
II. That part that appertains to Christ was upon conditions of what he was to do and suffer, he hath obtained all for us wholly by Desert and Merit, and we have all, every way of mere grace and favour particularly in the applicatory part thereof: Moreover, let it be noted that there is a difference in respect of the time of the making of the Covenant, and of the Revelation, Execution and Application thereof.
II. That part that appertains to Christ was upon conditions of what he was to do and suffer, he hath obtained all for us wholly by Desert and Merit, and we have all, every way of meer grace and favour particularly in the applicatory part thereof: Moreover, let it be noted that there is a difference in respect of the time of the making of the Covenant, and of the Revelation, Execution and Application thereof.
Christ in the Covenant first Articled with the Father to be Mediator and Surety, &c. and in the execution of the Covenant actually discharges those Offices, and all things that appertains to them, one thing being his bringing of us home to God, or into the bonds of his Covenant.
Christ in the Covenant first Articl'd with the Father to be Mediator and Surety, &c. and in the execution of the Covenant actually discharges those Offices, and all things that appertains to them, one thing being his bringing of us home to God, or into the bonds of his Covenant.