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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.
The Jews, Rom. 11.16. are holy root and branch, first fruit and lump, fathers and children, and the Jews shall be brought in again. Why? The Generation to come in is holy, for the Covenant made with their fathers. Well say Anabaptists, but notwithstanding of the federal holiness you talk of, 1Rom. 11.16. that gives not right to the cast off to be Baptized, and admitted to Church privileges; for the cast off are no Church, and have no Church privilege, your federal holiness then must be a dream?
The Jews, Rom. 11.16. are holy root and branch, first fruit and lump, fathers and children, and the Jews shall be brought in again. Why? The Generation to come in is holy, for the Covenant made with their fathers. Well say Anabaptists, but notwithstanding of the federall holinesse you talk of, 1Rom. 11.16. that gives not right to the casten off to be Baptized, and admitted to Church priviledges; for the casten off are no Church, and have no Church priviledge, your federall holinesse then must be a dream?
- 1The place, Rom. 11.16. if the root be holy, so is the branches, opened.
Ans. But these to come in, and to be re-ingrafted are holy, intentionally, 1in the decree of God, because of their beloved fathers, and when God shall call them, the same Covenant made with Abraham gives them right; and these branches not in being, and the unborn Generation are only intentionally holy by this federal holiness, and they shall be actually holy, when they shall be born, but it followeth not, but the present Generation not broken off through unbelief, as Paul and others called by the name of election,