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The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature…
The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature of the covenant of grace opened in a sermon preached January the 29th, at the funeral of Mr. Henry Forty, late pastor of a Church of Christ, at Abingdon, in the county of Berks, who departed this life Jan. 25th 1692/3 and was interred at Southwark ... : to which is added, An elegy on the death of the said minister / by Benjamin Keach ...The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature of the covenant of grace opened in a sermon preached January the 29th, at the funeral of Mr. Henry Forty, late pastor of a Church of Christ, at Abingdon, in the county of Berks, who departed this life Jan. 25th 1692/3 and was interr'd at Southwark ... : to which is added, An elegy on the death of the said minister / by Benjamine Keach ...
London: printed for H. Barnard, 1693
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and therefore, such a Righteousness must either be inherent in us or else, according to the Wisdom and Grace of God be imputed to us and therefore, he chose his beloved Son, and entered into a gracious Covenant for us, with him, that he in our Nature and Stead, as our Head and Surety, might yield perfect Obedience to the Law which we had broke and for which breach, his Justice, by Christ's Death, must be satisfied also therefore the Compact, or gracious Covenant, that was before all Worlds made between the Father and the Son, was part of the Covenant of Grace, respecting poor lost and perishing Man, since there was no Redemption without the shedding of Christ's Blood; hence the Blood of Christ, is called The Blood of the New Covenant. The Father (saith Mr. Petto) is Contracting with the Son, Isa. 41.6. I will give thee fo• a Covenant of the People; therefore that with the Son (saith he) and with the People, is one and the same Covenant ▪ indeed as that which partaketh of the Nature, or is a part, is put for the whole; so that with the People alone, even here, beareth the Name of a Covenant, with in the grand Contract with Jesus Christ, as a Branch or Parcel thereof yet both together make up that one Covenant of Grace, as appeareth thus,
and therefore, such a Righteousness must either be inherent in us or else, according to the Wisdom and Grace of God be imputed to us and therefore, he chose his beloved Son, and entered into a gracious Covenant for us, with him, that he in our Nature and Stead, as our Head and Surety, might yield perfect Obedience to the Law which we had broke and for which breach, his Justice, by Christ's Death, must be satisfied also therefore the Compact, or gracious Covenant, that was before all Worlds made between the Father and the Son, was part of the Covenant of Grace, respecting poor lost and perishing Man, since there was no Redemption without the shedding of Christ's Blood; hence the Blood of Christ, is called The Blood of the New Covenant. The Father (saith Mr. Petto) is Contracting with the Son, Isa. 41.6. I will give thee fo• a Covenant of the People; therefore that with the Son (saith he) and with the People, is one and the same Covenan• indeed as that which partaketh of the Nature, or is a part, is put for the whole; so that with the People alone, even here, beareth the Name of a Covenant, with in the grand Contract with Jesus Christ, as a Branch or Parcel thereof yet both together make up that one Covenant of Grace, as appeareth thus,