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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.
There is a directive commanding power that CHRIST takes in hand, and commands us to obey our Lord Ransomer, and we should sin against his love, if we should live loosely, because we are freed from condemnation.1 Hence also there is a twofold dominion of sin, one legal to condemn us eternally, another (as it were) physical to keep us under the superlative power of lusts, if Christ had not died, we had been under both.
There is a directive commanding power that CHRIST taks in hand, and commands us to obey our Lord Ransomer, and we should sin against his love, if we should live loosly, because we are freed from condemnation.1 Hence also there is a twofold dominion of sin, one legal to condemn us eternally, another (as it were) physicall to keep us under the superlative power of lusts, if Christ had not died, we had been under both.
- 1There is a twofold dominion of sin.
A. He means the idle, fruitless, and bare knowledge of the Law in external Discipline, that reigns in an unrenewed man, by which he remaining in nature under the Law, foments an opinion pharisaical (for he points at the false and literal glosses of the Law given by Pharisees and refuted by Christ,