Featured God the Son's Assent to The Eternal Covenant of God's Giving Salvation, by Grace.

I added the blue words.


"Now all this was "written" concerning Him "in the volume of the book";
not of the scriptures in general only, nor of the Pentateuch in particular,
the only volume extant in David's time,

en kefalidi,

at the head and beginning of which
is a declaration of the Grace, Will, and Work of Christ, #Ge 3:15

nor only of the book of God's Purposes, #Ps 139:16

but of the Covenant; alluding to the writing, signing, and sealing of covenants;

the Covenant at Sinai is called, the book of the Covenant, #Ex 24:8.

Now in this volume, or book, as the Father's Proposal
is there Written and Contained,
so is the Son's Assent unto it, and Acceptance of it.

Add to all this, that the Character
in which Christ here addresses His Divine Father, "My God",
is a phrase expressive of Covenant Relation,
and is frequently so used both with regard to Christ and His people.

But, to observe no more, nothing more fully proves
Christ's Free and Full Assent
and Consent to do the will of his Father, proposed in the Covenant,
than His actual Performance of it.

Was it His Will that He should take the Care and Charge of all His elect, and lose none?
he has done it, #Joh 17:12.

Was it His Will that He should assume human nature?
the Word has been Made flesh and Dwelt among men, #Joh 1:14.

Was it His Will that He should obey the law?
He is become the end of the law for righteousness, #Ro 10:4.

Was it His Will that He should suffer death, the penalty of it?
He has Suffered, the Just for the unjust, to Bring them to God, #1Pe 3:18.

Was it His Will that He should make Himself an Offering for sin?
He has Given Himself to God, an Offering and a Sacrifice, of a sweet-smelling savour, #Eph 5:2

In a word, Was it His Will that He should Redeem His people from all their iniquities?
Yes, He has Obtained an Eternal Redemption of them, #Heb 9:12.

FROM:

The Part The Son Of God,
The Second Person,
Has Taken In The Covenant

His By Grace--"John Gill: A Body of Doctrinal & Practical Divinity"-Doctrinal Book 2, Chapter 9


The "council between the three Divine Persons,
shows Their Unanimity in The Everlasting Council ;

as they are One in Nature, so they Agree in One;

and as in everything, so in this, the Salvation of men;

the Father signified His mind that His Son
should be sent to be the Saviour of men,

when He may be supposed to put such a question as in #Isa 6:8.

"Whom shall I Send, and Who Will Go for Us?"

the Son, knowing His Father's Will, and Assenting to The Everlasting Council ,
declared his agreement with The Everlasting Council , "Here Am I, Send Me";

and the Spirit Approving of the Father's Motion, and the Son's consent,
joined with the Divine Father in the Mission of Him, JESUS, The SON;

"Now the Lord God and His Spirit hath Sent Me", #Isa 48:16

and what Inexpressible Pleasure must such Unanimity Give to a believing soul,
to declare which is the Design of the Divine Consultation

...2e. That there has been such a Transaction between the Father and the Son,
which, with Propriety enough, may be called the "Counsel of Peace",
we have sufficient warrant from #2Co 5:19.

"God was in Christ Reconciling the world unto Himself,
not imputing their trespasses";

by the "world" is meant the Elect of God, He so Loved
, as to Send His Son to be the Saviour of,
and for the Life of whom Christ Gave His flesh, #Joh 3:16 6:51

and about the Peace and Reconciliation of those,
or in what way to make Peace and Atonement for them,

God was in Christ, or with Christ, Consulting, Contriving,
and Planning the Scheme of The ONE Everlasting Council of GRACE;

which was this, not to impute their sins unto them, but to Christ,
now called to be the Saviour of them;

and this contains the sum of what we mean by The Council of Peace.

..."3b2. Jehovah the Son, has the same Wisdom, Counsel,
and Understanding His Father has;

for all that He hath are His;

nor does Christ Think it any robbery to be Equal with Him;

He is Wisdom itself, or "wisdoms",
He is Possessed of the Most Consummate Wisdom;

in Him, even as Mediator, are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge;

and He Himself says, "Counsel is Mine, and Sound Wisdom",
#Pr 1:20 8:14 #Col 2:3

yea, he is called "the Wonderful, Counsellor", #Isa 9:6

which not only respects His Capacity and Ability
to Give the Best Counsel and Advice to men, as he does,

but to Assist in the Council of God Himself;

and so the "Septuagint" interpreters understood that passage, rendering it,
"the Angel of the Great Council";

whereby it seems as if those Jews then had a notion of this great transaction, and of the concern of the Messiah in it;

to whom the whole verse belongs: to which may be added,
that Christ the Son of God,
was as One Brought Up with His Divine Father,
Lay in His Bosom,
was Privy to His Designs,
and must be in His Council, and was on all accounts fit for it."

FROM:
The Everlasting Council
Between The Three Divine Persons,
Concerning The Salvation Of Men

His By Grace--"John Gill: A Body of Doctrinal & Practical Divinity"-Doctrinal Book 2, Chapter 6

 

"like a flint"!! There it is!!!

 

Gill uses a LOT of Scriptures to describe what he means by Jesus Being a part of The Everlasting Covenant of Grace.

And a LOT of words.



DOCTRINAL DIVINITY ~ BOOK II

OF THE ACTS AND WORKS OF GOD


Chapter 6: Of the Everlasting Council
Chapter 7: Of the Everlasting Covenant of Grace
Chapter 8: Of the Part the Father took in the Covenant
Chapter 9: Of the Part the Son of God took in the Covenant
Chapter 10: Of Christ as the Covenant Head of the Elect
Chapter 11: Of Christ the Surety of the Covenant
Chapter 12: Of the Love of God
Chapter 13: Of Christ the Testator of the Covenant
Chapter 14: Of the Concern the Spirit has in the Covenant
Chapter 15: Of the Properties of the Covenant
Chapter 16: Of the Complacency and Delight the Divine
Persons had in Each Other From Everlasting

 

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