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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. We have showed how none but particular Persons who believe, are concerned in the Application of the Covenant of Grace.—But
2. We have shewed how none but particular Persons who believe, are concerned in the Application of the Covenant of Grace.—But
3. Doth not the Scripture say Christ is the Mediator of the New Covenant, viz. the Covenant of Grace? And doth not this respect as they confess, all his Seed? and can any perform the Terms of this Covenant without Christ, in the Execution of his Office as our Mediator and Surety? He is our Saviour in the Covenant of Grace, that was his Work, his Part; and so consequently he engaged, and will quicken us, renew us, save us, and bring all the Father gave him, to Glory.
3. Doth not the Scripture say Christ is the Mediator of the New Covenant, viz. the Covenant of Grace? And doth not this respect as they confess, all his Seed? and can any perform the Terms of this Covenant without Christ, in the Execution of his Office as our Mediator and Surety? He is our Saviour in the Covenant of Grace, that was his Work, his Part; and so consequently he ingaged, and will quicken us, renew us, save us, and bring all the Father gave him, to Glory.
Obj. 8. If the Covenant of Grace and that of Redemption were the same, then Christ should be both the Testator and a Party: A Testator maketh not a Will to bequeath Legacies to himself.