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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. X. The Arminians ground that God was in a manner compelled to appoint the New Covenant. p. 56, 57. The natural antecedent love of God a dream. p 57.
CHAP. X. The Arminians ground that God was in a maner compelled to appoint the New Covenant. p. 56, 57. The naturall antecedent love of God a dream. p 57.
CHAP. XI. The threefold Covenant of some considered. p. 57, 58. And of the Arminians, p. 64▪ considered, and rejected. The Law as propounded to Israel was the very Covenant of Grace, p. 60, 61, 62. and the Covenant ⟨image 5⟩in the Old one with that of the New Covenant, but differenced •n some accidents. p. 63▪ 64.
CHAP. XII. Self-searching to know under what Covenant We are, a spiritual condition, and why? p 65, 6•. The threatenings under the New Testament more spiritual. p 67, 68. What it is to be under the Law. ibid. The combat between the flesh and the Spirit, and the combat in natural men differenced. p 68. Compelled convictions argue a Law Spirit. ibid. Its easier to be sound in the faith, then to be Godly. p. 69. Of the legal terrors. ibid. Of literal and legal convictions and these of the Gospel. p. 70. Marks of such as are under the Law. p. 70, 71. A sweetness in the hardest command, because holy. ib. An heaven in duties. p. 71. A new nature stands for a command. ibid.