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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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2. To Abraham, in thee, and again, in thy Seed shall all the families of the Earth be blessed, Gen. 12.3. Gen. 22.18. that this Promise refers to Christ, see Gal. 3.16. and to us in him, see vers. 29.
3. The Covenant with David runneth to Christ, and also in him to us, Psal. 89.20.28, 29. I have found David my Servant, my Covenant shall stand fast with him; when did God find him, Was it not before the World began? Christ we know, is often called David.
But I can't further enlarge on this, I shall therefore in the next place consider what is brought in Opposition to what I have said upon this Account.
Object. 'Tis objected, First, that the Parties are distinct, in the one Covenant, the Father and the Son are the covenanting Parties; in the Covenant of Grace, God and Man; in the Mediatory Covenant, there are two Persons equal: in the Covenant of Grace, there is a superior God, and an inferior Man.