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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. The former was, do and live, this was, believe and live. Ans. Doing and living was but a shutting them up under the Law, that they might flee to Christ in whom they believed; else the fathers must be saved and justified by works contrary to Rom. 2. Rom. 4. Heb. 11.
2. The former was, do and live, this was, believe and live. Ans. Doing and living was but a shuting them up under the Law, that they might flee to Christ in whom they beleeved; else the fathers must be saved and justified by works contrair to Rom. 2. Rom. 4. Heb. 11.
3. In antiquity, the former came in as added 430. years after the promise of grace, Gal. 3.17.
Ans. True, but he speaks of the Covenant in Sinai, according to the strict Law part, which could not save, and so its different. But that proves not two Covenants.