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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.
Obj. This Text is spoken of these that have hereditary Covenant-right, from their natural Father Abraham. We Gentiles ⟨p. 116⟩have not that natural relation to Abraham,1 nor are we his natural sons, nor branches?
Obj. This Text is spoken of these that have hereditary Covenant-right, from their naturall Father Abraham. We Gentiles ⟨p. 116⟩have not that naturall relation to Abraham,1 nor are we his naturall sons, nor branches?
- 1The seed are in Covenant, not by birth as birth, but by such a birth, so & so graciously privileged.The seed are in Covenant, not by birth as birth, but by such a birth, so & so graciously priviledged.
Answ. Its false, that the Jews by birth as birth, had hereditary right to Church-privileges, they had right by such a birth from Abraham taken in out of free-love to Covenant fellowship with God, and his children are natural, that is, kindly. 2. First branches and sprigs, before us Gentiles, to believing Abraham, but we believing are made Abraham's by proportion, and are secondary and so wild branches. 2. Abraham is not the Physical, but a Moral root. For the Covenant was made with Abraham, not as a believing Father, but as a believing Head of Children, of Servants, and strangers under him, as the Covenant is laid as an Heavenly depositum, upon Zacheus, in relation not to his children only, but to his house, Luke 19. For when he is made a son of Abraham, salvation, that is, the Covenant of Life comes to him and to his house: and so to Cornelius,