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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.
6. The Text evidences that the Disciples had a prejudice and a carnal one, at infants, thinking, they understood nothing of Christ and of the Kingdom of Grace. The Disciples [Greek or Hebrew] rebuked these that brought them: as Anabaptists do. And Christ rebukes them and instates infants of believing Parents as members of the Visible Church.
6. The Text evidences that the Disciples had a prejudice and a carnall one, at infants, thinking, they understood nothing of Christ and of the Kingdom of Grace. The Disciples 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 rebuked these that brought them: as Anabaptists do. And Christ rebukes them and instates infants of beleeving Parents as members of the Visible Church.
7. Nor was it extraordinary, when Christ said suffer little Children to come, but he would have the species instated members of such a Kingdom. Ergo, some of the kind must be saved and examples must be verified (saith Mr. Cobbet judiciously) in some particulars.
7. Nor was it extraordinary, when Christ said suffer little Children to come, but he would have the spece instated members of such a Kingdom. Ergo, some of the kind must be saved and examples must be verified (saith Mr. Cobbet judiciously) in some particulars.
8. Of such is the Kingdom of God, of such in Covenant relation is the Kingdom of God, of such subjects. For if Christs reason be, of such for humility, meekness, want of malice, and envy, as 1 Pet. 2.1, 2, 3.