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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47465	The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons lately preached, in which the errors of the present day about reconciliation and justification are detected / by Benjamin Keach.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing K58; ESTC R19782	172,719	330

II. A seasonable Covenant in respect of the Revelation or Manifestation of it even just as Adam had sinned and when Divine Justice was ready to lift up his direful Ax of Divine Vengeance How seasonable is it for a poor condemned Criminal to hear of a Pardon just when he is brought to the place of Execution and the Halter is put about his Neck or the Ax lifted up to Cut off his Head III. It is a seasonable Covenant in respect to the application of the blessings thereof to a poor Sinner 1. 'T is by the Spirit applyed when the sinner sees he is Condemned being under the sense of Sin Wrath and Condemnation beholding himself just dropping into Hell then this Covenant is opened and the blessing of free Justification and Pardon is applied 2. When the Soul and Conscience of a sinner is wounded and his wounds bleed then is the Balm of the Covenant applied to heal him 3. When the Sinner sees he is pursued by the Avenger of Blood and sees no way to escape then his Eyes are opened and he is directed to fly to the City of refuge the way being made plain and easie and the Holy Spirit directs the Soul to Christ and crys Refuge Refuge 4. When the Sinner sees he is so sick that he can't live even then the Physician provided in the Covenant comes immediately and pours in his Oyl and Wine When I passed by and saw thee polluted in thy Blood I said unto thee live Ye I sware unto thee and entred into Covenant with thee saith the Lord and thou becamest mine Eighthly It is a Sure Covenant Ordered in all things and sure Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your Souls shall live and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David I. It is a sure Covenant because it is made with such a Surety as Jesus Christ is it is not made primarily with us but with Christ for us and with us in him the sure mercies of David That is our Lord Jesus Christ he is the true Antitipical David Sure because they are Mercies granted to us thro' Christ's suretiship and when a Sinner is brought into the bands of the Covenant God is said to make this Covenant with him i. e. he actually entering then thro' Christ into Covenant with God but our standing then in it is upon the account of Christ's Covenant with the Father for us II. It is a Sure Covenant because it stands upon the absolute purpose and unchangeable Decree and Councel of God My Mercy will I keep with him and my Covenant shall stand fast with him My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my mouth Hence the absolute Decrees of God are compared to mountains of Brass Zach. 6.1 Denoting how unmovable stedy and unchangable his Councels are nay Tho' the Mountains should depart and the Hills be removed yet saith the Lord my loving kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the Covenant of my Peace be removed c. All Covenant-Mercys are according to God's Eternal purpose which be purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord The Covenant stands not only as the act of God's Eternal Wisdom but as his Eternal Decree and Purpose before all Worlds III. The Covenant of Peace is sure because it is confirmed by the witness of the Holy Ghost 1. The Spirit of God was a witness to the Covenant when it was made 2. Moreover it was confirmed in the promulgation of it by the Holy Ghost by wonderfull Miracles for what served all those Miracles more clearly for than to confirm the Authority of the Mediator and the verity and stability of the Gospel Covenant IV. Furthermore The Covenant was as you heard confirmed by the Blood of Jesus Christ therefore it is a sure Covenant V. The Covenant is sure because it is confirmed by the Promise and Oath of God Once have I sworn by my Holiness that I will not lye to David his Seed shall endure for ever and his Throne as the Sun before me This is as the waters of Noah unto me for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the Earth so have I sworn that I will not be wrath with thee nor rebuke thee compared with Heb. 6.13 16 17 18. VI. It is a Sure Covenant to all Gods Elect because the Execution of it is put into Christ's own hands he is the Executioner of his own Will and Testament for tho Christ was dead yet he is alive I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive forevermore Christ sees his last Will and Testament fully executed by his Spirit Ninethly It is a Covenant of Peace this is the Name that is given to it in my Text which also shews it is of an excellent and precious nature I. 'T is a Covenant of Peace with God God is hereby reconciled to us and we to him and that for ever II. Hereby we come also to have peace in our own Souls or peace of Conscience nor indeed can we ever have true peace any other ways For can your repentance give you peace of Conscience Can Tears of Blood apease Divine Wrath or satisfy Divine Justice Can Reformation of life give you Peace or your inherent Sanctification or pious and religious duties Do you fetch your peace from thence If you do your peace will be turned into trouble and anguish of Spirit or can your lively and spiritual Frame give you true and lasting peace I affirm 't is a false peace that is simply grounded on a lively and Spiritual Frame or disposition of Heart for there can be no true peace of Conscience but by Jesus Christ thro' the Blood of the everlasting Covenant He is our peace c. He will speak peace to his People Not as the World giveth give I unto you Dare a Man plead his Faith or good Duties to Justifie him and so from thence fetch his peace and comfort alas What unrighteousness cleaves to our righteousness what doubtings attend our Faith and what wandrings of heart attend us in our best Duties nay may we not find some Hypocrisie in us also tho in the main we are sincere our peace is only had in Christ. III. 'T is only by the peace made by Christ as is revealed in this Covenant that a poor wounded disparing and distressed Soul comes to have peace I once cited a passage out of Dr. Owen being pious Anselem's directions to a poor tempted Soul on a Death-Bed let me repeat it here once again Minister Dost thou believe thou canst not be saved but by the Death of Christ. ' Sick-man Yes I do so believe Minister Then let it be said unto thee go and whilest thy Soul abideth in thee and put all thy confidence in Christ's death alone place thy trust in no other thing commit thy self wholly to

he believes in Jesus Christ Also you may hereby see what a strong ground here is for our Faith and Comfort From hence also we may see the Cause why the Holy Angels pry into this Mystery this Love and Grace of God to Mankind they bow down to look into these things yea look with admiration And shall not we admire it who are more especially concerned herein IX Sinners be exhorted from the Considerations of the whole to labour and strive to receive Jesus Christ And let such of you who think and hope you have received him try your selves by what you have heard O be exhorted to know in this your Day the things which belong to your Peace before they are hid from your Eyes Luke 19.42 X. Believers see that you labour after a strong Faith in Christ and in the Covenant for the measure of your Peace will be according to the measure and degree of your Faith O get a great Faith and then your Peace will not be little but like a River yea wonderfully abound in you XI Tryal Let all that hear me this Day try themselves examine themselves whether they have Peace with God or not Take a few Rules to try your selves 1. Are you at War with Sin Is Sin cast out of your Love and Affections Is there an unreconcilable opposition made in you against all Sin And as it is Sin do you loath and hate it because it is hateful to God and hath exposed your Blessed Saviour to so much Pain Shame Sorrow and Suffering even to let out his most Precious Blood 2. Do you mourn for Sin because it caused such Cursed Enmity in your Hearts against God causing your Souls to rebel against him yea to hate and despise him in your Hearts 3. Are you reconciled to the Ways of God even to the strictest Acts and Duties of Holiness Do you love the Word of God because of its Purity 4. Do you love all the People of God and are you Reconciled to those who may in many things differ from you Do you pray for them and hate all Bitterness and forbear all Reproachful Language and Sensorious Reflections Dare any reproach and speak against their Father's Children Thou sitest and speakest against thy Brother and slandrest thine own Mothers Son It is thy deliberate Practice and Business as if God should say thus to do 'T is to be feared that such are not at Peace with God that are not at Peace with all the Children of God He that saith he is in the Light and hateth his Brother is in Darkness until now We know that we are passed from Death unto Life because we love the Brethren he that loveth not his Brother abideth in Death Therefore let such tremble that are not at Peace with all those who have Peace with God 5. Do you mourn for such whom you love even for your Brethren your Kinsfolk your Neighbours that are not yet Reconciled unto him See Rom. 9.1 2. 6. Do you Love Esteem and highly Respect and Honour the Ambassadors of Peace and cannot endure to hear them reviled and unjustly slandered and spoken against 7. Have you Peace in your own Consciences and Peace in your Families And do you live peaceably in the Church of God And also strive as much as in you is to be at Peace with all Men 8. Do you long for the Peace of Jerusalem and pray for her Peace for that Peace which is promised to her in the last Days Christ hath purchased Universal Peace for his Church not only internal Peace but external Peace also not only Peace within but Peace without not only Peace with God but Peace with Men also and the Day is near he will give his People Intire and Universal Peace Caution Let none mistake me in any thing I have delivered in any of these Sermons about God's being Reconciled in Christ c. so as to think he is at Peace Reconciled and well pleased with the Elect whilst they remain in a State of Enmity against him being vile and notorious Sinners God can't but hate Sin whereever it is and loath the unrenewed Sinner when he looks upon them as in the first Adam or as in their Filthiness for as such he hates and loaths them but as he looks upon any Persons in Christ so he loves them and is at Peace and well pleased with them God sees not as Man sees for he sees a Man Condemned and Justified at one and the same time nay as being in this World and yet as being in the World to come but whatever sight of Things or of Persons God hath or how we are lookt upon and Justified in his sight in Christ is one thing and what the State of Persons are or what Things and Persons may be said to be as they actually are or when they actually exist or in a proper Sense and Acceptation is another thing for it is ridiculous to say That a Man in a proper Sense is actually or personally Condemned and Justified Dead and yet Alive at one and the same time or is in the first Adam and yet in the second or in a State of Wrath and yet in a State of Grace at one and the same moment Nay and dangerous it is for any to say that a wicked Man whilst he is so is an Object of God's Delight or that such a Person is actually Justified and that God is at Peace and well pleased with him it being so directly contrary to the Testimony of God's Word and the Witness of the Divine Spirit The Sum therefore of what I say and mean is this When I say God in Christ is Reconciled to Sinners viz. God having chosen his Elect in Christ from Eternity was Reconciled to them in him as the Way and Means of the Procurement of their Peace or of their Recovery out of the Fall or out of their lapsed State foreseen by him but to say he was actually reconciled to them personally considered from Eternity or from the Death of Christ seems absurd and improper For how could he be said to be Reconciled to this or that Person before that Person had any personal Existencies or Being or if they had a Being yet were Enemies to him and loathsome Wretches and under his denounced Wrath and Curse and in which State they remain before they are actually united to Christ or are effectually called Yet take notice that that which actually reconciles the Holy God to us is Christ's Satisfaction alone to which there can be no Addition made by any Collateral Work wrought in us and done by us We should therefore distinguish between a Foederal a Virtual and a Representative Vnion and Justification and an Actual Vnion and Personal Justification For from hence perhaps the Mistake may arise The Scripture every where declareth that God is an Enemy or an Adversary to all Unconverted Persons nay and that he hates all the Workers of Iniquity and