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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
Part 1 › Chapter 22: The differences in the promise of the Covenants.
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.) Adam had a Law-claim to the Crown without sin, if he had continued in obedience,1 and did merite ex pacto life eternal, our new Covenant obedience in habitual and actual performance is so a duty, that it is also promised and a benefit merited to us by the death of Christ, whereas Adams obedience was purum officium, non officium promissum, as our Gospel-obedience is.
(2.) Adam had a Law-claim to the Crown without sin, if he had continued in obedience,1 and did merite ex pacto life eternall, our new Covenant obedience in habituall and actuall performance is so a duty, that it is also promised and a benefite merited to us by the death of Christ, whereas Adams obedience was purum officium, non officium promissum, as our Gospel-obedience is.
- 1The obedience of Adam only a duty, not a promised benefit, our new obedience is both a duty▪ and a promised benefit.The obedience of Adam only a duty, not a promised benefite, our new obedience is both a duty▪ and a promised benefite.
6. Hence in obedience distinguish two. 1. The nature of obedience. 2. The worth and excellency of obedience. The more the obedience be from our selves, the more it partakes of the nature of obedience. Hence four kinds of obedience are to be considered. 1. Christs obedience was the most legal obedience, and also the most perfect,1 for he obeyed most of his own, of any, from his own will purely,