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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. Propos. The washen heart that lodges not vain thoughts, Jer. 4.14. purged from dead works, by the blood of Christ (above all the blood of bullocks and goats) Heb. 9.14. purified by faith, Act. 15.14. is the good heart.1 It is a better heart according to the heart of God, 1 King. 15.5. that turneth not aside, 1 Sam. 13.14. of Gods seeking out and finding, then the first heart created of God, Eph. 4.24. Col. 3.10. And ah! we seek a good Ruler, a good Physician, when we are sick, a good house to dwell in,2 and (which is strange) a good horse, but not to have a good heart.
- 1What the good heart is, and how it is made good.
- 21. Creation of a better heart then the first, is a piece of the rarest of the Lords works.1. Creatiō of a better heart then the first, is a peece of the rarest of the Lords works.
4. Propos. The excellent acts of God, in a manner (with glory to his Highness) to mind his first work, to create a better heart then the first which he created, saith, that there is great need of a good heart,