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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. XIV. The place Gen. 17. opened. p. 95. Circumcision and Baptism compared. p 95 96 97. What blessings and privileges must infants want, if they be without the Covenant. p 98, 99 100. The place Mark 10.15, 16. Luke 18. Math. 19. Of such is the Kingdom of heaven, opened. p. 100.101.102. What blessing Christ bestowed upon the infants, whom he took in his arms. p. 102, 103, 104. A Covenanted seed is promised to be added to the Church of the Jews. 104.105 Considerable differences between external and internal Covenanting. 107.108 The place Rom. 11.6. If the root be holy, so are the branches. 110.111. By the holy Root cannot be meant the predestinate to Glory only. 113, 114. But visible Professors, fathers and children. p. 115, 116. The children are in Covenant not by birth, but by such a birth. p. 116, 117. Covenant holiness is not the complete and adequate cause of real ingrafting in Christ. p. 116, 117, 118
CHAP. XIV. The place Gen. 17. opened. p. 95. Circumcision and Baptisme compared. p 95 96 97. What blessings and priviledges must infants want, if they be without the Covenant. p 98, 99 100. The place Mark 10.15, 16. Luke 18. Math. 19. Of such is the Kingdome of heaven, opened. p. 100.101.102. What blessing Christ bestowed upon the infants, whom hee took in his armes. p. 102, 103, 104. A Covenanted seed is promised to be added to the Church of the Jews. 104.105 Considerable differences between external and internal Covenanting. 107.108 The place