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A47489	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 ...	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1693 (1693)	Wing K62; ESTC R10226	54,891	60

Angels 3ly God's Divine Love Mercy and Goodness to lost Man to admiration is displayed hereby God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son c. Joh. 3.16 rather than Mankind should be utterly lost he will enter into a Covenant with his own Son and substitute him our Mediator Head and Surety to satisfie for our Sins and be made a Curse for us that so by his own Free-Grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ we might be reconciled justified and eternally saved i. e. by his Merits and Righteousness imputed to us there was nothing in Man to oblige God to pity him we were his Enemies when Christ died for us and he offered and propounded this glorious Contrivance of his Wisdom to his Beloved Son in the Covenant of our Peace out of his infinite Love and Goodness as seeing us fall'n and lying in our Blood it was as we were in that woeful Condition he first loved us and as the Effects of that Love entered into a Covenant with the Son for us 4thly His Divine Justice and Infinite Holiness shines forth hereby also that God might be Just and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus Rom. 3.26 that is that God might appear to be Just as well as Gracious true God had been just if Mankind had been left for ever under his divine Wrath and Vengeance as it is upon the fall'n Angels but then his Mercy had for ever been veiled and had never appeared to any of his Creatures and yet that Justice might not suffer the least Eclipse or lose any of its Glory Christ shall bear our Sins upon his own Body on the Tree and suffer that Wrath that Justice denounced upon the Sinner for the Breach of the Holy Law God can as soon cease to be God as cease to be Just nor could any Justice or Righteousness justifie us but that which is Pure and Spotless or without Sin Justice is not to be consider'd in God as 't is in Man who can forgive without requiring Satisfaction wherein he hath been wronged The Law was but a Transcript or written Impression of his Holy Nature and discovers what a Righteousness it is we must be found in if we are ever justified in his sight If God had not been gracious he had not accepted of a Substitute and if his Justice had not been satisfyed and his Wrath appeased he had never raised this Substitute from the dead This Crucified Redeemer saith Reverend Charnock only was able to effect this Work he was an infinite Person consisting of a divine and humane Nature the Union of the one gave Value to the Suffering of the other the Word of God was past in his threatning his Justice would demand its right of his Veracity a Sacrifice there must be to repair the Honour of God c. Justice must have Satisfaction the Sinner could not give it without Suffering eternal Punishment Christ then puts himself into our place to free us from the Arrest of Justice So that now God can pardon the Sins of Believers with the Glory of his Righteousness as well as of his Grace and legally justifie a believing Sinner without the least impeachment of his Justice 5thly God's divine Power and Omnipotence also is exalted by this Covenant in his raising up a poor fall'n and lost Creature sunk as low as Hell under the weight of fearful Guilt and Wrath lying under the powers of infernal Spirits to dwell with him in the highest Heavens for ever but God's Power doth not only appear in respect of that glorious Conquest Christ obtain'd over Sin Satan and Death at his Resurrection in the actual Execution and Accomplishment of his holy Compact with the Father without us but also in working in us by his putting forth his Almighty Power in working Faith in our Souls after the same manner that he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the Dead Eph. 1.19 20. he raised us with Christ from the Dead when Christ was rais'd vertually as he was our Head and also doth actually quickens us and raises us up by his Spirit Eph. 2.1 2. destroying those evil and vicious Habits Sin and Satan had infused into us and so bingeth us out of Darkness into Light and from the power of Satan unto God 6thly God's Veracity and Faithfulness shines forth also hereby his threatning is made good upon us in Christ's undergoing Death and the Curse due to us for our Sins as also in making good what he sware to the True David and promised to his Seed in sending of his Son when the fulness of time was come made of a Woman made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law Gal. 4.4 the Woman's Seed hath bruised the Head of the Serpent so much as to this But Secondly In this Covenant there is a clear Revelation or Manifestation of the Three Persons in the Deity and their Glory doth equally and joyntly shine forth every one acting a part in it under the Old Covenant there was but a dark Discovery of God personally considered tho' it was made known as soon as the Covenant of Grace was manifested to Man in the Gospel is a full Declaration of their distinct Personality the Father sending the Son as a Mediator the Son dying for our Sins and the Spirit sanctifying our Souls the Father by eternal Generation begetting the Son the Son begotten of the Father and the Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son yet all Three are but one and the same God But to proceed 1. The Glory of God the Father shines forth in the Covenant of Grace for the Father is holden forth as the Primary and efficient Cause in his Wisdom Grace and Love of our Salvation and of all those Blessings of Peace and Reconciliation we have therein All things are of God who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 5.18 19. God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself Tho' the whole Trinity are concerned in our Salvation yet as our Protestant Writers observe each Person acts a distinct Part in it the Father chose and substituted Christ to do this glorious Work and accepted him in our stead as our Surety and Saviour God the Father prepared him a Body a Body hast thou prepared me Heb. 10.5 he sent him also into the World as our Saviour asserts many times in the Gospel Recorded by St. John the Father anointed him with the Holy Spirit above his fellows to undertake for us in this Covenant the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to Preach the Gospel to the poor c. Luk. 4.18 the Father calls him his Servant whom he upheld and strengthened in doing that great Work and he is said to be raised up from the Dead by the Power or Glory of the Father the Father is indeed represented as the injured Person he had therefore the only Right to offer and fix on such Terms

hath given to him in the said Covenant and indeed whatsoever was necessary unto our Redemption and Reconciliation he agreed to work it out they agree in their end which was God's Glory and our Good as by and by I shall God assisting shew Salvation of the Seed is the grand Design of it and therefore the highest Grace and Goodness imaginable to us and whatsoever we stood or do stand in need of in order to Interest by way of Application is also contained in this Covenant as it was made with Christ as 1. Justification by his Knowledge or by the Knowledge of him shall my righteous Servant justifie many for he shall bear their Iniquities Isa. 53.11 and that all his Seed shall have such a knowledge or Faith God saith they shall all know me c. for he shall bear their Iniquities that is he shall satisfie the Justice and Law of God and therefore they must be justified or acquitted otherwise saith Mr. Pool the same Debt should be twice required and paid a new Heart is promised to us Jer. 31.31 and was not this promised to Christ for us in the Text I last mentioned Isa. 53.11 in knowing of God is not a new Heart comprehended in these words he shall see his Seed the fruit of his travel and anguish he pass'd through that is they shall be made his by Regeneration or Renovation c. 5. Is not Union with Christ the only way to the promised Blessings and therefore I must say with some of our late worthy Writers the Covenant is made joyntly with him and us all the promises of God are in him ye and in him Amen 2 Cor. 1.2 and shall infailably be made good and accomplished 6. As Mr. Petto well observes the Covenant expressure from the beginning ran first to Christ and in him to us 1. The Promise to Adam primarily runneth to Christ as the Woman's Seed and so to us in him 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 'T is 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. 1 st 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 Sirs We shall find the Top Glory of the Covenant of Grace to lie here was it not infinite Grace and Goodness that moved God to fix upon this way to redeem us i. e. to propound offer and accept of a Surety for us when he might justly have exacted Satisfaction from us the guilty Debters and Criminals Nay and to chuse his own Son to be our Saviour and Surety and was it not infinite Grace in Christ to accept so readily and heartily of it 'T is plain here began the Covenant of Grace i. e. God's entering into a Covenant with his Son for us and thus is God the Father the efficient cause of our Redemption 2. I would know whether in the Covenant of Grace God is said to enter into Covenant with Man simply considered as in himself or whether 't is not with Christ and so in him with us if Christ be the Surety of the Covenant of Grace then God doth not take Christ distinct from us into Covenant with himself and certainly our credit was so lost and gone with God that he would not trust us with any Covenant-Transaction any more without a Surety they continued not in my Covenant and I regarded them not saith the Lord Heb. 8.9 I would have no more to do with them in a Covenant way therefore all the Promises of Grace are in Christ all is managed in Christ even all the whole Will of God concerning our Salvation we are dead till he quickens us blind till he opens our Eyes have stony Hearts and unregenerate till he breaks our Hearts and renews us by his Spitit and was not all this comprehended or included in that Covenant our Brethren call the Covenant of Redemption how then can that be a distinct Covenant from the Covenant of Grace is dead Man vile and depraved Man capable to enter into a Covenant with God and is not the quick'ning and changing of his Heart one great Part of the Covenant of Grace that God promised upon Christ's Undertakings that he would do for us as I have shewed Object 2. The time of making these Covenants is different the Covenant of Grace was made in time after Man had broken the Covenant of Works but the Covenant of Redemption was made from Eternity I was set up from Everlasting c. The Revelation of the Covenant of Redemption was in time but the Stipulation was from Eternity the Father and Son being actually in Being and so Stipulators the Decree of making the Covenant of Grace was from Eternity but not the actual Covenant because there was no Soul to Covenant with Answ. I wonder at this Expression was not the Covenant of Grace as I said before made with us in Christ as our Head and Representative before the Foundation of the World and was not those Covenanting Transactions as well as the Spring or Fountain of the cause of all the Grace we receive in the Covenant of Grace upon the Account of what Christ Covenanted to do and suffer for us or in our room and stead True the Members were not actually in Being but the Head was and if it be not thus what doth the Apostle mean Tit. 1.2 In hope of Eternal Life which God that cannot lie promised before the World began It could not actually be promised to us we as they say having then no Being therefore it was promised to us in our Head with whom the Covenant was then for us made was not Christ