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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.
CHAP. X. Christ procures the Gospel to be Preached to Reprobates, but undertakes not for them. A necessary distinction of the Covenant as Preached according to the approving will of God, and as acted upon the heart according to the decree of God. The place, Jer. 31, Heb. 8. This is my Covenant, opened, p. 339, 340, 341, 342. The distinction of the approving will of God & of his will of pleasure, p. 342.343 Antinomians confound the efficient cause of the obedience and the objective cause or the rule of the Word, p. 345, 346 The purpose and scope of the Holy Ghost is not, Heb. 8. and Jer. 31. to speak or treat of the Covenant of Grace as Preache• in the […] but as acted upon the heart, that so Christ may be advance• as a more spiritual and effectual teacher and Priest, then Moses, Aaron, &c. p. 346, 347, 348 Which two are confounded by Antinomians.
CHAP. X. Christ procures the Gospel to be Preached to Reprobates, but undertakes not for them. A necessary distinction of the Covenant as Preached according to the approving will of God, and as acted upon the heart according to the decree of God. The place, Jer. 31, Heb. 8. This is my Covenant, opened, p. 339, 340, 341, 342. The distinction of the approving wil of God & of his wil of pleasure, p. 342.343 Antinonians confound the efficient cause of the obedience and the objective cause or the rule of the Word, p. 345, 346 The purpose and scope of the Holy Ghost is not,