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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.
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.
But again, our Scottish Author saith,1 Christ is the Covenant of Grace comprehensively, he is the very compound, or there is an abridgement of the Covenant; in the Mediators Person, there is the little sum, or the whole Covenant—Consider this, how the Parties Articles, Mutual Stipulations, Promises, Proportion, and Blessings of the Covenant, are all some way abridged in Christ, and summed up in his Person.
But again, our Scotish Author saith,1 Christ is the Covenant of Grace comprehensively, he is the very compound, or there is an abridgment of the Covenant; in the Mediators Person, there is the little sum, or the whole Covenant—Consider this, how the Parties Articles, Mutual Stipulations, Promises, Proportion, and Blessings of the Covenant, are all some way abridged in Christ, and summed up in his Person.
- 1Art. of the Cov. p. 457