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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the sovereignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the soveraignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...
Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. III. What is the intent and sense of the threatening, Gen. 2.17. and Gen. 3.20. Dust thou art, &c. p. 3, 4, 5. Threatenings of the Law reveal what the Law-giver may jure inflict, by justice and Law deserving, not what shall come to pass. p. 4. Except it be both a threatening and a Prophecy. p. 5. What is carnal security. ibid. What Adam was to believe in that threatening. p. 5, 6. How the promises and the threatenings differ in this. p. 7. How Law threatenings to the Elect are Evangelic. p. 8.
CHAP. III. What is the intent and sense of the threatning, Gen. 2.17. and Gen. 3.20. Dust thou art, &c. p. 3, 4, 5. Threatnings of the Law reveal what the Law-giver may jure inflict, by justice and Law deserving, not what shall come to passe. p. 4. Except it be both a threatning and a Prophesie. p. 5. What is carnall security. ibid. What Adam was to believe in that threatning. p. 5, 6. How the promises and the threatnings differ in this. p. 7. How Law threatnings to the Elect are Evangelick. p. 8.
CHAP. IV. The Elect before Conversion bear no part of the Law-curse, nor is the Law-curse divided between them and Christ. p. 10.11. Faith is too near to be made a cause of satisfaction for sin by all who hold that Christ gave a satisfactory ransom for all and every one of mankind. p. 11. Accepting or not accepting satisfaction is▪ before faith, and so believing or not believing can be no ground of the sufficiency of the price payed for the Reprobate, or of the laying of the sins of all upon Christ. p. 11, 12, 13 God may accept the satisfaction of Christ without any condition required on our part. p. 13.