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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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3. As to the other Condition in the Covenant of Redemption, it being larger to Christ, than that in the Covenant of Grace. I answer, as the Covenant was primarily made with Christ, it was made with him for all the Elect, as their Head and Surety; and therefore, it must needs be larger as well as it was a meriting Reward: but as we are concerned in the same Covenant, we have nothing as a Reward, because we work not; and as considered as particular Persons, 'tis enough our own particular Souls and Bodies shall be eternally saved, who are united to him as the Reward of his Work: the Condition therefore being made to him as the Head of the whole Body, it must needs be so large and extensive; but as to the particular Members, that can't comprehend more than he or she that believes as a part of the Seed which he was to see; 'tis enough therefore, that we are the Saved, the Redeemed, and not the Saviours or Redeemers of others.
3. As to the other Condition in the Covenant of Redemption, it being larger to Christ, than that in the Covenant of Grace. I answer, as the Covenant was primarily made with Christ, it was made with him for all the Elect, as their Head and Surety; and therefore, it must needs be larger as well as it was a meriting Reward: but as we are concerned in the same Covenant, we have nothing as a Reward, because we work not; and as considered as particular Persons, 'tis enough our own particular Souls and Bodies shall be eternally saved, who are united to him as the Reward of his Work: the Condition therefore being made to him as the Head of the whole Body, it must needs be so large and extensive; but as to the particular Members, that can't comprehend more than he or she that believes as a part of the Seed which he was to see; 'tis enough therefore, that we are the Saved, the Redeemed, and not the Saviours or Redemers of others.
But if by Virtue of the Covenant of Redemption we are not Redeemed, call it no more the Covenant of Redemption —therefore— 1st. I would know whether Faith which is called the Condition of the Covenant of Grace, was not the Fruit of Christ's Suffering in pursuit of that Holy Compact? and is it not particularly implied in those Words, he shall see his Seed? but if they be adult Persons, he can never see them if Faith be not given to them (unless the Holy Spirit, that great Promise