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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.
3. If any object, the Prophets did foretell particular facts concerning the death of Ahab, the birth of Josiah, which concerned particular persons: I, but they so were the matters of fact (as the crucifying of Christ was a matter of fact) as also they did by the intent of the Holy Ghost contain Historical, Moral and dogmatically divine Instructions, so that the whole Catholic Church must believe them, with certainty of divine faith,1 they being written and spoken for our Instruction, and they sin who believe not.
3. If any object, the Prophets did foretell particular facts concerning the death of Ahab, the birth of Josiah, which concerned particular persons: I, but they so were the maters of fact (as the crucifying of Christ was a mater of fact) as also they did by the intent of the Holy Ghost contain Historicall, Morall and dogmatically divine Instructions, so that the whole Catholick Church must believe them, with certainty of divine faith,1 they being written and spoken for our Instruction, and they sin who believe not.
- 1The difference between revelations, of what is truth, and what is lawful or not lawful, and revelations of facts, what shall come to pass, and what not.The difference between revelations, of what is truth, and what is lawfull or not lawful, and revelations of facts, what shall come to passe, and what not.
Quest. 2. What are we to judge of these truths revealed to Professors, when they are in much nearness to God, and the Lord is pleased to shine upon them in some fullness of manifestation of himself to their souls, especially in particular facts? Answ. There is a wide difference betwixt revelations, which speak what is lawful or unlawful, agreeable unto or repugnant to the Word; And what is good in jure, and what in facto, shall come to pass or not come to pass, what ever is given to revelations of the former sort, is taken from the Scripture, whose peculiar perfection it is to show