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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Name: The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
Author: 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 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 ...

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655

[16], 368 p. · 159k words · Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Part 1 › Chapter 12: 1. All are to try under what Covenant they are. 2. Threatenings under the New Testament…Part 1 › Chapter 12: 1. All are to try under what Covenant they are. 2. Threatnings under the New Testament…

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the constraining love of Christ, which is stronger then death or hell hath so swallowed up all temporary sufferings, the Spirit hath such influence on the flesh. (5.) When the world seeks wisdom, 1 Cor. 1. and Rabbis of the Jews and learning and arts abound all the world over,¹ as the profound Philosophers of the Gentiles, the wonders of nature prove, yet not many wise are called, 1 Cor. 3.21, 26, 27. and unlettered and ignorant, are, in number, for Godly spiritual knowledge, far beyond the Godly learned; and make that true, Esa. 11.9. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the Sea, and Isa. 30.26. And the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun, and the light of the Sun shall be as the light of seven days, so hath the Lord darkened carnal learning, though of it self the good gift of God, with the shining of spiritual wisdom in the fools of the world, for so are they judged, 1 Cor. 1.27.

the constraining love of Christ, which is stronger then death or hell hath so swallowed up all temporarie sufferings, the Spirit hath such influence on the flesh. (5.) When the world seeks wisdome, 1 Cor. 1. and Rabbies of the Jews and learning and artes abound all the world over,¹ as the profound Philosophers of the Gentiles, the wonders of nature prove, yet not many wise are called, 1 Cor. 3.21, 26, 27. and unlettered and ignorant, are, in number, for Godly spirituall knowledge, farre beyond the Godly learned; and make that true, Esa. 11.9. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the Sea, and

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

Edinburgh

Printer

Andro Anderson

Bookseller

Robert Brown

Year

1655

Size

[16], 368 p.

Words

158,620

Catalogue

Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Text

EEBO-TCP A57966

Passages

902

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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

CHAP. XIII. There are two sorts of Covenanting, on external, professed, visible, conditional, another internal, real, absolute and the differences betwixt them. 2. Infants externally in Covenant under the New Testament 3. Some Questions touching infants.

CHAP. XIII. There are two sorts of Covenanting, on externall, professed, visible, conditionall, another internall, reall, absolute and the differences betwixt them. 2. Infants externally in Covenant under the New Testament 3. Some Questions touching infants.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XIII. There are two sorts of Covenanting, on external, professed, visible, conditional, another internal, real, absolute and the differences betwixt them. 2. Infants externally in Covenant under the New Testament 3. Some Questions touching infants.

CHAP. XIII. There are two sorts of Covenanting, on externall, professed, visible, conditionall, another internall, reall, absolute and the differences betwixt them. 2. Infants externally in Covenant under the New Testament 3. Some Questions touching infants.

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