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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.
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,1 Mat. 5.) Of merit, external worship, ceremonies without any inward heart-renovation, to which is opposed the newness of the spirit, or true new Evangelic obedience and holiness wrought by the Spirit.
A. He means the idle, fruitlesse, and bare knowledge of the Law in externall Discipline, that reigns in an unrenewed man, by which he remaining in nature under the Law, foments an opinion pharisaicall (for he points at the false and literall glosses of the Law given by Pharisees and refuted by Christ,1 Mat. 5.) Of merit, externall worship, ceremonies without any inward heart-renovation, to which is opposed the newnesse of the spirit, or true new Evangelick obedience and holinesse wrought by the Spirit.
- 1The oldness of the letter, and the newness of the Spirit.The oldnesse of the letter, and the newnes of the Spirit.