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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.
1Q. What are the false grounds of the Lords making the Covenant of Grace?
1Q. WHat are the false grounds of the Lords making the Covenant of Grace?
- 1Cotvin. cont. Molin. c. 8. §. 7. Primo foedere per inobedientiam primi hominis rupto, cessabat etiam obligatio ad eam obedientiam lege praescriptam. Ibid. c. 9. §. 5. Remonstr. in Scrip Synod. Dored. 4. •a. 145.
A. There are two bastard grounds devised by Arminians. 1. Because the Covenant of Works cannot oblige both to active and passive obedience, but to one of them only (say they) and the Covenant of Works was so rigid, that God could not follow it out, and cast infants in hell for a sin which is theirs, only by imputation, and was pardoned to the first man that committed it. Therefore he was necessitated to make a Covenant of Grace with all mankind, none excepted. But the Covenant of Works is broken, and can now be a way of Justification and salvation to none, but yet it obliges all. And sin cannot make us lawless, for the spiritual Law is of an eternal obligation. 2. They that never heard of Christ, perish by the Law, and not by the Covenant of Grace of