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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.
which is unknown to Scripture. Yea the Covenant is made to Christ and his seed, Gal. 3.16. and the same blessings of Abraham, comes on us Gentiles, Gal. 3.13, 14. But he and all his seed were blessed and in grace by the external call of the Covenant. Ezek. 16.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Deut. 7, 7, 8. Rom. 10.25.1 I will call them my people that were not my people, and her beloved which was not beloved. And this external calling is of Grace and so Grace, no merit, as well as predestination to life is grace, or for grace. For whosoever are called, not because Elect, but because freely loved of such a God and without merit called, Father and Son, they are in a state of grace• But so are all within the Visible Church. If any object, by Christs coming all the Nations old and young are not become the Nations of the Lord and of his Christ, but only true Believers, even by our Doctrine.
which is unknown to Scripture. Yea the Covenant is made to Christ and his seed, Gal. 3.16. and the same blessings of Abraham, comes on us Gentiles, Gal. 3.13, 14. But he and all his seed were blessed and in grace by the externall call of the Covenant. Ezek. 16.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Deut. 7, 7, 8. Rom. 10.25.1 I will call them my people that were not my people, and her beloved which was not beloved. And this externall calling is of Grace and so Grace, no merit, as well as predestination to life is grace, or for grace. For whosoever are called, not because Elect, but because freely loved of such a God and without merit called, Father and Son, they are in a state of grace But so are all within the Visible Church. If any object, by Christs comming all the Nations old and young are not become the Nations of the Lord and of his Christ, but only true Believers, even by our Doctrine.