A57966:558

The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Name: The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
Author: 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 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 ...

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655

[16], 368 p. · 159k words · Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Part 1 › Chapter 27: Of cases of Law-fear, and Gospel-faith: How a child of God fears Law-threatenings.Part 1 › Chapter 27: Of cases of Law-fear, and Gospel-faith: How a child of God fears Law-threatnings.

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.

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Quest. 2. How can the fear of falling away, and the faith of perseverance absolutely promised and absolutely given, consist together?

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¹Ans. The Law-fear of falling away, and the Gospel faith of persevering are not consistent. The fear legal of the least sin is a fear of hell and of eternal wrath to be irrecoverably inflicted, but because the person is under grace, the believer cannot fear this fear, except the Law-fear be let out against him as a temptation, but it is not his obliged duty so to fear.

¹Ans. The Law-fear of falling away, and the Gospel faith of persevering are not consistent. The fear legall of the least sinne is a fear of hell and of eternall wrath to be irrecoverably inflicted, but because the person is under grace, the beleever cannot fear this fear, except the Law-fear be letten out against him as a temptation, but it is not his oblidged duty so to fear.

1How fear of law-fear acts upon a believer.How fear of law-fear acts upon a beleever.

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2. The Law-fear upon a believer is conditional, and not absolute, as he fears hell and falling away, jure, as his deserving, if God should enter in judgement with him, and if he were not in CHRIST: But he is obliged to a Gospel-faith which lays hold on Christ, righteousness, and deliverance from condemnation, and if Christ and interest in him be hid from him, and nothing on but Law-fear, that is a trial, not a duty of Law-fear. ^*

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

Edinburgh

Printer

Andro Anderson

Bookseller

Robert Brown

Year

1655

Size

[16], 368 p.

Words

158,620

Catalogue

Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Text

EEBO-TCP A57966

Passages

902

Sections

Title page

The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

CHAP. XXVIII. Christ died not to blot out the sense of sin, but rather to quicken a Godly sense thereof.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XXVIII. Christ died not to blot out the sense of sin, but rather to quicken a Godly sense thereof.

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