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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. VI. It was condescension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Temptations in fearing we are not chosen, discovered. 3. Beings and not-beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denial required in sinless nature, as in sinful. 5. Man considered three ways. How faith lays hold upon conditional promises, and temptations of unbelief thereabout. p 16, 17. O• the Covenant of nature. p. 18, 19, 20.
CHAP. VI. It was condiscension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Tempt•tions in fearing we are not chosen, discovered. 3. Beings and not-beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denyall required in sinlesse nature, as in sinfull. 5. Man considered three wayes. How faith layes hold upon conditionall promises, and temptations of unbelief thereabout. p 16, 17. O• the Covenant of nature. p. 18, 19, 20.
CHAP. VII. Its not written in the heart of man by nature, that God should promise life Eternal to man, upon condition of obedience. 2. The debt of justice cannot tie God. 3. God punisheth not sin, by necessity of nature. 4. Nor defends he his own declarative Glory by necessity of nature. 5. Nothing can be given to God All sufficient. 6. No meriting of the creature. 7. We are to have humble thoughts of free-Grace. 8. Low thoughts of our selves. 9. Promises make no strict justice between the Lord and us. p. 20▪ 21. God falls in no sort from his natural dominion, though he impose not penal Laws upon the reasonable creature. p. 25, 26. God loves his essential Glory by necessity of nature, but not his declarative Glory, by any such necessity p. 28, 29 30. In every Covenant there is some out goings of Grace. p. 35.