A47465:928
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.
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
The other says Christ is Mediator of the Covenant of Grace,1 but not the Mediator of the Covenant of Redemption.
- 1Charnock's Reconcil. p. 273.
The mistake, I humbly conceive, lies in this, viz. They distinguish not between Christ's part and work in the Covenant as our Covenanting head, and the Blessings we receive as the effects of his Mediation.