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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.
12. There is a wicked flintiness of heart, we shall have peace, 1though we both hear cursing and walk loosely, Deut. 29.19. we are fallen, but Ephraims stout heart (2.) will rise whether God will, or not, Isa. 9.9. And (3.) the King of Assyria's stout heart will be as strong as God, Isa. 10.12, 13. And (4.) its wicked stoutness to say godly mourning before the Lord is in vain, Mal. 3.13, 14. (5.) Its wicked stoutness to rest upon your own righteousness and refuse to treat with God, Isa. 46.12, 13. (6.) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him, Exod. 14.8.23. Exod. 23.8▪ 13. Isai. 36.10, 11, 36, 37. if it were in his own seas as Pharaoh and the Egyptians would do.
12. There is a wicked flintinesse of heart, we shall have peace, 1though we both hear cursing and walk loosly, Deut. 29.19. we are fallen, but Ephraims stout heart (2.) will rise whether God will, or not, Isa. 9.9. And (3.) the King of Assyria's stout heart will be as strong as God, Isa. 10.12, 13. And (4.) its wicked stoutnesse to say godly mourning before the Lord is in vain,