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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.
Answ. Self-searching is a reflect act upon the state (and such acts are more spiritual, then direct acts) and therefore it should be the work of all, to try, under what reign they are, whether of the first or second Adam. And whereas Angels cover their faces and their feet with wings,1 Isa. 6. before God and are full of eyes, as without, so also within R•v. 4.8. We may hence learn, such come nearest to the nature of these pure and heavenly Spirits, who have eyes within to see what they are, and their blackness of face and feet, when they compare themselves either with the Holy God, or his Holy Law. 2. The Carnal man is a beast, Psal 49.20. and beasts have no reflect acts upon their own beastly state.2 3. The more of a spiritual life is in any the more stirring in communing with their own heart, the Law makes, the more of life that is in the worm when tramped on, the more stirring it makes: deadness and stupidity in not being versed and well read and skilled in our selves and our own heart, argues little of the ⟨p. 66⟩Spirit, and estrangement to a spiritual Covenant, nor can any lay hold on the Covenant of Grace in a night dream.
Answ. Self-searching is a reflect act upon the state (and such acts are more spirituall, then direct acts) and therefore it should be the work of all, to try, under what reign they are, whether of the first or second Adam. And where•s Angels cover their faces and their feet with wings,1 Isa. 6. before God and are full of eyes, as without, so also within R•v. 4.8. We may hence learn, such come nearest to the nature of these pure and heavenly Spirits, who have eyes within to see what they are, and their blacknesse of face and feet, when they compare themselves either with the Holy God, or his Holy Law. 2. The Carnall man is a beast, Psal 49.20. and beasts have no reflect acts upon their own beastly state.