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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.
Quest. But we are more ashamed of lying, falsehood, and stealing, then of pride? Ans. There's more of being ashamed before men, it being a carnal sort of passion, then of being ashamed before God, and falsehood and lying to men are fleshly evils against common honesty, but pride is a more Angel-sin, or a more God-like sin, a spiritual sin, and pride is a sort of heart-heresy, by which we judge but blindly, we have reason to ascend and climb aloft to ⟨p. 149⟩Gods room, Gen. 3.5, 6. Isai. 14.13. because of knowledge, parts, power.
Quest. But we are more ashamed of lying, falshood, and stealing, then of pride? Ans. There's more of being ashamed before men, it being a carnall sort of passion, then of being ashamed before God, and falshood and lying to men are fleshly evils against common honesty, but pride is a more Angel-sin, or a more God-like sin, a spirituall sin, and pride is a sort of heart-heresie, by which we judge but blindly, we have reason to ascend and climb aloft to ⟨p. 149⟩Gods roome, Gen. 3.5, 6. Isai. 14.13. because of knowledge, parts, power.
10. There is deceitfulness and self-deceiving in the heart, Isa. 44.20. the Idolater feeds on ashes, a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand, Obadiah 3. The heart is the greatest liar on earth, to say and gain-say.