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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. 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 Acts 8.37. Mark 16.16. opened, and are nothing for, but much against Anabaptists. p. 85, 86. The text, Acts 2.39. opened, is strong for Infant baptism. p. 86, 87. A conditional Covenant is properly a Covenant, though it be not ever a fulfilled Covenant. p 90▪ 91. No means are proved, by Law, or Gospel, to save infants by the opposers of infant Baptism. p 91, 92. Two diverse considerations of the Covenant, one in abstracto as a simple way ⟨image 5⟩of saving sinners, and so all in the Visible Church are in the Covenant; another in concreto, as it contains the Lords will of pleasure, and as it is acted upon the heart, and so the Elect are only in Covenant. p 94. The new heart is only commanded to some, and to others it is both commanded and promised. p 95.