The Everlasting Covenant: A Sweet Cordial for a Drooping Soul
“This covenant is the only city of refuge for a distressed soul to fly to for sanctuary when all the billows and waves of temptations run over him, or Satan doth furiously assault him. If we fly to this armory, we can never want weapons to resist the devil, nor doubt of success against him.”
The Everlasting Covenant was a funeral sermon preached by Benjamin Keach for the Baptist minister, Mr. Henry Forty. At Forty's request, Keach preached on the nature of the covenant of grace, and how it is the hope, desire, salvation, and consolation of every believer in life and death. In the sermon, Keach argues against the covenant of redemption being a separate covenant from the covenant of grace. They are not distinct covenants, he argues, but are two parts of the same covenant.