The Everlasting Covenant: A Sweet Cordial for a Drooping Soul: or, The Excellent Nature of the Covenant of Grace Opened
Overview
This volume contains a sermon by Benjamin Keach on the distinction between the covenant of redemption and the covenant of grace. Keach critiques the arguments supporting this distinction. The text also includes an elegy for Pastor Henry Forty, who passed away four days earlier.
Top Highlights
“Question, Is not that Covenant which was made between the Father and the Son (considered as the latter, is Mediator) called the Covenant of Redemption, made from all Eternity a distinct Covenant from the Covenant of Grace?” (Page 6)
“That Holy Agreement or Compact between the Father and Son was the Rise, or Spring of the Covenant of Grace, it was made with Jesus Christ, and with us in him; therefore I see no Reason to call them Two distinct and compleat Covenants, but two Subjects (as the same Author intimates) of the same Covenant as with Jesus Christ, it had its Constitution from before all Worlds, or we had a Being, tho’ as with us, it has its Application in time after we exist, and are actually in Christ, as part of the promised Seed.” (Pages 8–9)
“First, Shew you what this Covenant is, and with whom it was primarily made, and for whom” (Page 3)
“The Distinction lies not in Two Covenants, but in the distinct Parts of the said one entire Covenant; one part as it referrs to Christ, the other as it respecteth us in the Applicatory part of it by his Grace.” (Page 15)
“Then poor doubting Soul, here is a Foundation of Comfort for thee; O! how doth the Love of the Father abound towards us? as to enter into a Covenant for us, with his own Son; here’s infinite Love, and Condescension: know, Christ equally engaged for all the Father gave him; Care is taken for the weakest Saint, as for the strongest; nay, Christ therefore entries his Lambs in his Arms, lays them in the Bosome of his Covenant. Souls, remember God calls it his Covenant, where is it called our Covenant? we may break with God, but he will not break with us; Altho’ my house be not to with God, yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant.” (Page 43)
- Title: The Everlasting Covenant: A Sweet Cordial for a Drooping Soul: or, The Excellent Nature of the Covenant of Grace Opened
- Author: Benjamin Keach
- Publisher: H. Barnard
- Print Publication Date: 1693
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Funeral sermons; Sermons, English › 17th century
- Resource ID: LLS:BPTSTCVNTTHLGY04
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:20:15Z