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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.
4. Can the taking of them be a mere Emblem that such were blessed, for so, beside that Doves and Lambs, for meekness are ⟨p. 101⟩capable of being taken in the arms of Christ and blessed, Christ bids them, in all times coming, be suffered to come, and not forbidden. v. 16. which saith he desired the whole species of Infants of the Visible Church to be brought to him. Nor doth Christ make acts of Emblems ordinary, but he will have children at all time to come to him: forbid them not; He once cursed the fig tree, that was an Emblem: and did but once wash his Disciples feet, and that was an Emblem. And,
4. Can the taking of them be a meer Embleme that such were blessed, for so, beside that Doves and Lambs, for meeknesse are ⟨p. 101⟩capable of being taken in the armes of Christ and blessed, Christ bids them, in all times coming, be suffered to come, and not forbidden. v. 16. which saith he desired the whole spece of Infants of the Visible Church to be brought to him. Nor doth Christ make acts of Emblems ordinary, but he will have children at all time to come to him: forbid them not; He once cursed the fig tree, that was an Embleme: and did but once wash his Disciples feet, and that was an Embleme. And,
5. He could not mean, that only Infants predestinate to glory, should be suffered to come: For he saith indifferently [Greek or Hebrew] suffer little children to come: Now he should then have given marks to discern predestinate children and suffer them. (2.) And receive them only as Disciples, in my Name, Mar. 6.36, 37. (3.) He should have laid his hands upon some Infants, as predestinate to glory, and forbidden others to come. And the Parents should have known what children are predestinate to life, and should come, and what not.