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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.
Secondly, What doth this import for God to be our God?
11. Negatively, not merely our God by Creation, for so he is the God of the Fallen-Angels, and the God of all Ungodly Reprobates in the World, they are his Creatures, or were made by him.
11. Negatively, not meerly our God by Creation, for so he is the God of the Fallen-Angels, and the God of all Ʋngodly Reprobates in the World, they are his Creatures, or were made by him.
- 1What it doth import to have God to be our God.
2. It doth not imply his being our God as he was the God of the whole House of Israel, which was by virtue of a Legal, and Typical Covenant; for tho in that Covenant he was their God, and an Husband to them, yet for all that, for their Disobedience he cast them off, and utterly rejected them, and now they are so no more his People, that Covenant and Covenant Relation, being quite dissolved and removed for ever: Therefore it follows, that was not the Covenant of Grace, into which all the Natural Seed of Abraham, as such, were ⟨p. 227⟩taken; the Covenant of Grace can never be removed.
2. It doth not imply his being our God as he was the God of the whole House of Israel, which was by vertue of a Legal, and Typical Covenant; for tho in that Covenant he was their God, and an Husband to them, yet for all that, for their Disobedience he cast them off, and utterly rejected them, and now they are so no more his People, that Covenant and Covenant Relation, being quite dissolved and removed for ever: Therefore it follows, that was not the Covenant of Grace, into which all the Natural Seed of Abraham, as such, were