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Title:  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.
Author: Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
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The Cove∣nant of Grace is a Glorious Covenant.Certainly that Covenant that was so early, even from Everlasting, contrived by the Sub∣lime Wisdom of God, and entered into be∣tween such Glorious Persons as the Father and the Son, must be a most Glorious Covenant; and this, I say, in respect to the Time when, and to the Persons who entred into it, certainly it must be some great Thing that is contained in this Covenant that was so early, and by the Eternal God concluded upon.II. It must needs be a Glorious Covenant, in regard that there was also a Council held about it in Eternity, for it was made as the Result of a Great and Glorious Council;Act. 2.23.Him, being delivered by the Determinate Council and Fore-knowledge of God, ye have taken, and by Wicked Hands ye have Crucified and Slain. The Fa∣ther, Son, and Holy Spirit then agreed, That the Second Person should assume the Nature of Man, and die to make our Peace; tho 'tis true elsewhere it is said.Zech. 6.13.The Counsel of Peace was between them both, viz. the Father and the Son; yet since it is ascribed to God without distincti∣on of Persons, and also seeing the Holy Ghost hath his part in this Covenant to act and do, in order to the actual and compleat Accom∣plishment of the whole Transactions agreed on in that Glorious Council, I see no reason to exclude the Holy Ghost from being concerned therein.Moreover let us consider the great Things Consulted about in that Glorious Council.1. It was how God might be Just, or Magnifie his Justice, and yet be Gracious, and Magnifie 0