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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Name: The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
Author: 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 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 ...

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655

[16], 368 p. · 159k words · Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Part 1 › Chapter 15: The differences of external and internal Covenanting. 2. No Universal Grace, Rom. 10…Part 1 › Chapter 15: The differences of externall and internall Covenanting. 2. No Universall Grace, Rom. 10…

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I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion upon whom I will have compassion. And if any man say that he hath the like antecedent natural good-will, to save eternally all these whom he calleth and moveth finally to obey, and the greatest part of mankind whom he so moveth and calleth as he knoweth they shall never obey, whereas he can move all finally to obey, without straining their natural liberty: He speaks things that cannot consist with both the wisdom and liberty of God.

I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion upon whom I will have compassion. And if any man say that he hath the like antecedent naturall good-will, to save eternally all these whom he calleth and moveth finally to obey, and the greatest part of mankind whom he so moveth and calleth as he knoweth they shall never obey, whereas he can move all finally to obey, without straining their naturall liberty: He speaks things that cannot consist with both the wisedom and liberty of God.

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And if amongst these to whom the word of the Covenant comes,¹ some are externally only, and never saved, Matth. 22.14. Rom. 9.6, 7. Others internally personally and really in Covenant and saved; why but some may be neither ways in Covenant, if they never heard the word of the Covenant, and if the Heathen and Americans were under the Covenant of Grace Preached to them in that sound, that goes to the end of the world. Why, but Moab, Ammon, and Assyrians, Philistines, Chaldeans, Persians, are the Israel of God, his chosen people, his Zion, and must not the principal promise of the Covenant be made to them? and are we not to believe that God will write his Law in the hearts of Cain, Pharaoh, Saul, Doeg, Ahab, Judas, Magus, and of Moabites, Ammonites, Egyptians, and of all and every one of mankind, if they be in Covenant with him? Contrary to

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

Edinburgh

Printer

Andro Anderson

Bookseller

Robert Brown

Year

1655

Size

[16], 368 p.

Words

158,620

Catalogue

Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Text

EEBO-TCP A57966

Passages

902

Sections

Title page

The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

CHAP. XVI. 1. Of the hypocrisy, of formal Covenanters. 2. Self-deceit. 3. The new Spirit. 4. Revelations and Prophecies. 5. Marks of a Spiritual disposition.

CHAP. XVI. 1. Of the hypocrisie, of formall Covenanters. 2. Self-deceit. 3. The new Spirit. 4. Revelations and Prophecies. 5. Markes of a Spirituall disposition.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XVI. 1. Of the hypocrisy, of formal Covenanters. 2. Self-deceit. 3. The new Spirit. 4. Revelations and Prophecies. 5. Marks of a Spiritual disposition.

CHAP. XVI. 1. Of the hypocrisie, of formall Covenanters. 2. Self-deceit. 3. The new Spirit. 4. Revelations and Prophecies. 5. Markes of a Spirituall disposition.

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