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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.
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.
4. In the former is compulsion and the Spirit of bondage, in this heart inclining freedom and the Spirit of Adoption. Ans. Yet the differences are accidental, there was a legal awing of the hearts, as if they had been Servants, yet Heirs and Sons they were, Gal. 4.1, 2. The whole Book of the Proverbs spake to the Godly as to Adopted Sons. They were believers, Heb. 11. Rom. 4. Acts 10.43. and so Sons as touching a spiritual state, John 1.11, 12. In regard of Economy, it was somewhat more rigid and legal, they were restrained as servants; Yet it was the Covenant of Grace, by which believing Jews were justified and saved, Acts 15. v. 11. Acts 10.43.
4. In the former is compulsion and the Spirit of bondage, in this heart inclining freedom and the Spirit of Adoption. Ans. Yet the differences are accidentall, there was a legall awing of the hearts, as if they had been Servants, yet Heirs and Sons they were, Gal. 4.1, 2. The whole Book of the Proverbs spake to the Godly as to Adopted Sons. They were beleevers, Heb. 11.