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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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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.
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 superiour God, and an inferiour Man.
Answ. 1st. I would know whether all the Elect were not considered in Christ, and was it not for us that he entered into that Covenant? Is not the Debtor a party with the Surety, and so the Elect a party with Christ? Did Christ enter into a Covenant for himself? tho' we say he is the Saviour, the Redeemer, the Surety, and not we; yet he entered into that Covenant for us, i. e. as our Saviour and Surety, to satisfy for our Sins, and perfect our Redemption; make us no party in the Salvation of this Covenant (tho' not the saving or satisfying party) and all our hopes are gone for ever.
Answ. 1st. I would know whether all the Elect were not considered in Christ, and was it not for us that he entered into that Covenant? Is not the Debter a party with the Surety, and so the Elect a party with Christ? Did Christ enter into a Covenant for himself? tho' we say he is the Saviour, the Redeemer, the Surety, and not we; yet he entered into that Covenant for us, i. e. as our Saviour and Surety, to satisfie for our Sins, and perfect our Redemption; make us no party in the Salvation of this Covenant (tho' not the saving or satisfying party) and all our hopes are gone for ever.