A47465:926
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.
If Jesus Christ in that Covenant he entered in with the Father, was constituted Mediator of the New Covenant, and he is Mediator of the Covenant of Grace, How can that Covenant be distinct, or Essentially differ from the Covenant of Grace?
If Jesus Christ in that Covenant he entred in with the Father, was constituted Mediator of the New Covenant, and he is Mediator of the Covenant of Grace, How can that Covenant be distinct, or Essentially differ from the Covenant of Grace?
Moreover, 'tis observable how this great Author, and Reverend Charnock differ one with the other, yet both assert the Covenants are distinct
This Man says,1 that Christ was surety of the Covenant of Redemption; the other denies it, and says,2 The Covenant of Redemption had no surety, but the Father and the Son took each others words. True, we say none was a surety for Christ to God in this Covenant, nor for God to us; but Christ in this Covenant was our surety to God, he undertook on our behalf;3 one says Christ is Mediator (King, Priest and Prophet) of the Covenant of Redemption:
- 1P. 26.
- 2Charnock on Reconcil. p. 273.
- 3Art. of the Cov. p. 423