THE COVENANT OF GRACE

Did Christians but study the Covenant of grace more, and understand better than they do the difference between the covenant of grace and the Covenant of works, how would their fears and doubts about their spiritual estates vanish, as the clouds before the sun when it shines in its greatest strength and glory. It was the saying of an eminent minister on his death-bed, that he had much peace and quietness, not so much from a greater measure of grace than other ministers had, or from any immediate witness of the Spirit, but because he had a more clear understanding of the covenant of grace than many others, having studied it and preached it so many years as he had done.

Thomas Brooks, ‘A Cabinet of Jewels’ (1669)