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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.
10.14, 15. if no sins against the Gospel be punished with eternal death but only unbelief? Yea the Scripture saith such as live in the Visible Church and are in Covenant with God, not only for final unbelief are condemned, but because they are unrighteous, fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, 1 Cor. 6.9. whoremongers, unclean, covetous persons, Eph. 5.5, 6. murderers, sorcerers, dogs, liars, Rev. 21.8. Rev. 22.15. for all their ungodly deeds and hard speeches, Jude v. 15. 2 Pet. 2.17. for all disobedience, 1 Cor. 4.5. Matth. 12.36, 37. they are everlastingly punished. And if Christ have suffered on the Cross for all the sins of the Reprobate, how are they judged and condemned for these sins, as the Scripture saith? And what Scripture saith they are condemned for the guilt of only unbelief: or that Pagans are condemned for Gospel-unbelief, where as Sodom, Gomorrah, Mat. 10.15. the men of Nineveh, Mat. 12.41. Tyre and Sidon, Mat. 11.21. and such as have sinned without the Law, Rom. 2.12, 13, 14 15. are freed of Gospel-guiltiness, and condemned for sins against the Law, and yet this same way saith that there is a Gospel-Covenant made with all, even thousands of Pagans who never heard of a Gospel, never engaged themselves by any profession to take the Lord for their God in Christ, yet Christ bare their sins on the Tree, and made his blood applicable to them by a Gospel-Covenant, if they shall believe. Whence they must all break the Covenant of Grace, of which many of them never heard, and be condemned for no sins but the last act of Sodomy, gluttony, parricide, for the Gospel threateneth not death to any sin but to final unbelief, say they. There are not any sins