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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.
9. There was no other design and purpose in Christ, in that emphatic expression, forbid them not to come [Greek or Hebrew] Math. 19.14. [Greek or Hebrew] Luke 18.16. to me their Saviour, as well as the Saviour of the aged, but to hold forth the common interest of the whole species of infants ([Greek or Hebrew]) within the Visible Church, their Covenant interest in Christ, for there is no imaginable reason, but the conceit of want of understanding (the prejudice of Anabaptists only) why the Disciples should have aimed to debar them or any poor sinners from access to the Saviour of sinners.
9. There was no other designe and purpose in Christ, in that emphatick expression, forbid them not to come 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Math. 19.14. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Luke 18.16. to me their Saviour, as well as the Saviour of the aged, but to hold forth the common interest of the whole spece of infants (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) within the Visible Church, their Covenant interest in Christ, for there is no imaginable reason, but the conceit of want of understanding (the prejudice of Anabaptists only) why the Disciples should have aimed to debar them or any poor sinners from accesse to the Saviour of sinners.
10 Christ took them in his arms, laid his hands on them, blessed them. Now this was a personal real favour bestowed upon infants, had infants been mere symbolic and doctrinal resemblances of the humility of real converts, and the young ones as much without the Covenant as Pagans,