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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. XI. The three-fold Covenant considered. 2. The Law pressed upon Israel was not a Covenant of Works, but a darker dispensation of Grace. 3. The three-fold Covenant of Arminians refuted. 4. Diverse considerations of the Law and the Gospel.
There be who hold that there be three Covenants.1 1. A Covenant of Nature, whereby God as Creator required ⟨p. 58⟩perfect obedience from Adam in Paradise, with promise of life, and threatening of death.
THere be who hold that there be three Covenants.1 1. A Covenant of Nature, whereby God as Creator required ⟨p. 58⟩perfect obedience from Adam in Paradice, with promise of life, and threatning of death.
- 11. The Covenant of nature.