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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. 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.
CHAP. XII. Self-searching to know under what Covenant We are, a spirituall condition, and why? p 65, 6•. The threatnings under the New Testament more spirituall. p 67, 68. What it is to be under the Law. ibid. The combate between the flesh and the Spirit, and the combate in naturall 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 legall terrors. ibid. Of literall and legall convictions and these of the Gospel. p. 70. Marks of such as are under the Law. p. 70, 71. A sweetnesse in the hardest command, because holy. ib. An heaven in duties. p. 71. A new nature stands for a command. ibid.
CHAP. XIII. Covenanting external, visible, professed, conditional, and Covenanting internal, invisible, real, absolute, and how they differ. p. 72, 73, 74. Infants are within the Covenant. p. 73, 74 75, 76. And to be baptized, and invested with Covenant privileges. p. 76▪ 77, 78, 79. Its false that none are in Covenant under the New Testament but converts. ib. The Covenant made with Abraham and us, the same. p. 80 81. Nor is that Covenant a civill Covenant. p. 81, 82. The New Testament Kingdom is spiritual, though there be seals in it and external worship. p. 82, 83. Of federal holiness. ibid. External Church privileges of the Covenant are given to Nations and societies. p. 83, 84. Its not the Physical but the Moral root that is the first subject of the Covenant conditional, and external. p 84, 85. The formal ground of right to Baptism. p. 85, 86. The places