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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.
2. Providential right is but a continuating of life and being, until the same power that gave it, shall remove it, by way of punishment;1 For God as Creator, of his Sovereignty, gives being and life, and the comfortable use of the creatures; but as a Judge ordinarily for sin he removes it, though he, I deny not, out of his Sovereignty, may, and possibly doth, annihilate the meat that the ⟨p. 51⟩Angels in assumed bodies, and which the Man Christ, after the Resurrection, did eat.
2. Providentiall right is but a continuating of life and being, untill the same power that gave it, shall remove it, by way of punishment;1 For God as Creator, of his Soveraignty, gives being and life, and the comfortable use of the creatures; but as a Judge ordinarily for sin he removes it, though he, I deny not, out of his Soveraignty, may, and possibly doth, annihilate the meat that the ⟨p. 51⟩Angels in assumed bodies, and which the Man Christ, after the Resurrection, did eat.
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3. The spiritual right is that new supernatural Title, which the Elect believers have, in order to a supernatural end, and all these being made theirs, to promove their salvation, 1 Cor. 3.21. All things are yours.