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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 26: Of the property of the Covenant of Grace, the perpetuity thereof.
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.
But 1. it is not eternal in the positives of the second, and fourth, and fifth Commands, the way of worship, the means, as Ceremonies, Sabbath, Magistracy, and such like, which are not to continue in the life to come,1 and so neither faith nor hope in God through Christ, 1 Cor. 13.13. Rom. 8.24, 25. 2 Cor. 5.7. nor a Temple, nor Ordinances, nor the Kingdom of Christ as now dispensed, are to be the binding rule for eternity to such as are confederates of the Covenant of Grace, Rev. 21.22, 23. 1 Cor. 15.24. though more of the smell and remnants of the Covenant of Grace, of the Lamb, of praises to him who was slain, Rev. 5.9, 11, 14. be in the life to come, then of the Law-Covenant, in regard of our standing in a state of glory for evermore by the Mediator, to keep the nature in an eternal union, for evermore, by the Lord Christ his being clothed with our nature, glorified for ever, Rev. 3.21. ⟨p. 215⟩Rev. 5. Rev. 7. Rev. 20. Rev. 21. Ch. 22. And in that we shall be ever with Christ God-Man,2 Luk. 23.42.