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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.
And the King spake and said, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the Kingdom, by the might of my power and the honour of my Majesty? So soon as there falls from the great Lord of being a chip or shadow of created being, especially where being is rational and under a Law, there follows and results (the Lord withdrawing) a proud supposed I and a vain conceit of self, 1and a dream of God-head comes in with borrowed being; And therefore created sinless self is to be denied. Adam denied not himself and thought in his sick imagination he should be like God knowing good and evil, Gen. 3. Christ the more excellent Adam pleased not that noble self, Rom. 15.3. [Greek or Hebrew]. He denied himself as man, as a gracious mere man, to be God or more then a man. And this self-denial is in elect Angels, who blush and are sinlessly ashamed of self, and cover their faces with wings before shining Infiniteness of Glory, and proclaim him thrice Holy, holy, holy, Isa. 6.2, 3. And who knows not we own grace as our own? my prayers, my faith, my holiness, my tears, as if grace had a relish from self, not from God: but Paul, 1 Cor. 15.10. Not I, but the grace of God (not my grace in me) that was with me, [Greek or Hebrew].
And the King spake and said, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the Kingdom, by the might of my power and the honour of my Majesty? So soon as there falls from the great Lord of being a chip or shadow of created being, especially where being is rationall and under a Law, there follows and results (the Lord withdrawing) a proud supposed I and a vain conceit of self, 1and a dream of God-head comes in with borrowed being; And therefore created sinlesse self is to be denyed. Adam denyed not himself and thought in his sick imagination he should be like God knowing good and evill, Gen. 3