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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.
That is the cause. 39. I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever; for the good of them and of their children ⟨p. 109⟩after them. See the same order, Ezech. 11.19, 20. though the words lie not in that order there and here. And Heb. 8.10.5. God is not then a God to any, because they have a clean heart, and the Law engraven therein, for then they should be in Covenant, before they be in Covenant; And so this is true (because he is our God in truth and righteousness, therefore we believe) but this is not true (because we believe, therefore he is our God) except we argue from the effect to the cause.
That is the cause. 39. I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever; for the good of them and of their children ⟨p. 109⟩after them. See the same order, Ezech. 11.19, 20. though the words ly not in that order there and here. And Heb. 8.10.5. God is not then a God to any, because they have a clean heart, and the Law ingraven therein, for then they should be in Covenant, before they be in Covenant; And so this is true (because he is our God in truth and righteousnesse, therefore we beleeve) but this is not true (because we beleeve, therefore he is our God) except we argue from the effect to the cause.
But to return: Calvin on Matth▪ 19.14. We hence gather that the grace of Christ is extended to Infant age, 1