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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.
10.1, 2, 3, 4. to be really redeemed, real believers, and the whole world to be really redeemed, and yet the world is not the Church, yet they were Idolaters, murmurers, visibly known to be such; And John Baptist was obliged to esteem the multitudes, all Judea who were baptized of him, Mark 1.5. Luk. 3.7. Matth. 3.2, 3, 4. really sanctified and redeemed, yea and since there be Prophesies under the Messiah, that all the Kingdoms of the world, Rev. 1•.15. Egypt, Assyria, Isa. 19.25. all Nations, Isa. 2.2. all the Gentiles, Isa. 60. shall be the confederate people of God,1 we must believe that all these Kingdoms are visible Saints, chosen to life as the Corinthians and Ephesians were, 1 Cor. 1.1. Eph. 1.4. So argues M•. Thomas Hooker from confederacy. 4. Let one word in Old or New Testament be given of a Judicature giving judicially sentence on earth of a number that professedly are hearers, that so many are to be admitted as due members of the Church, because conceived of men to be regenerated, and so many rejected, because conceived to be non-converts; or what word of Christ there is that doth regulate the judicial sentence, as touching the time how long the Church-member hath been so. 2. What motives or inducements led Simon Magus, and the generation of vipers, the multitude and all the people baptized, Luke 3.7. compared with Luk ▪ 3.