THE EVERLASTING COVENANT OF GRACE



“We believe that, before the world began, God did elect a certain number of men unto everlasting salvation, whom He did predestinate to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, of His own free grace, and according to the good pleasure of His will and that, in pursuance of this gracious design, He did contrive and make a covenant of grace and peace with His Son Jesus Christ, on the behalf of those persons, wherein a Saviour was appointed, and all spiritual blessings provided for them; as also that their persons, with all their grace and glory, were put into the hands of Christ, and made His care and charge.” -Gospel report by preacher John Gill (1697–1771 A.D.)
“I blessed the most High, and I praised and honored Him that liveth for ever, Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation:
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and HE DOETH ACCORDING TO HIS WILL in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?
...Now I *Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor THE KING OF HEAVEN, all Whose works are truth, and His ways judgment: and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.”


*the king of Babylon’s testimony of our LORD JESUS Christ

[see Daniel 4:34, 35 & 37]


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