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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.
2. As there is a satisfaction performed for some sins, not for all, not for final unbelief, that sin then must be in the same case with the sin of the fallen Angels, there is no sacrifice for it, nor is Christs death applicable by divine ordination to purge men from final unbelief more then to purge Devils from any sins they commit. 3. The same incorruptible price of the blood of the Lamb that is given to ransom all from wrath, Matth. 20.28. 1 Tim. 2.6. conditionally, is given to buy all, for whom Christ died, from their vain conversation, 1also, 1 Pet. 1.18. that is to merit faith to them conditionally. Show us the condition of the one more then the other. If a condition cannot be shown, Christ must have payed the price of blood upon the Cross, for some upon intention, for others upon another unlike intention. 4. If Christ died for all, not because they did will and believe, but that they might will and believe; and if Jesus suffered without the Camp, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, Heb. 13.12. Heb. 10.10. That he might wash them from their sins, and make them Kings and Priests to God, Rev. 1.5, 6. That they might offer up themselves holy living sacrifices to him, Rom 12.1. upon a great design of love, to cleanse them with the washing of water by the Word, and present them a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle, Eph. 5.26, 27. If he gave himself for them, that they should live to righteousness, being dead to sins, 1 Pet. 2.24. That they might be delivered from the present evil world, Gal. 1.4. If Christ gave himself ⟨p. 183⟩