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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.
4. Godly fear of self-weakness and trembling at sin which may darken the feelings of received mercies and sweet influences addeth strength. Something of that is here, 2 Cor. 12.10. when I am weak, then am I strong.
4. Godly fear of self-weaknesse and trembling at sin which may darken the feelings of received mercies and sweet influences addeth strength. Something of that is here, 2 Cor. 12.10. when I am weak, then am I strong.
5. A fixed peace in assurance of deliverance from condemnation, and quietness in believing pardon and righteousness in Christ, ought always to be, as touching the state of Justification: for the questioning of this in a believer, if Antinomians will yield to truth, is contrary to faith, and no warrantable assurance. But 2. a fixed peace in David, immediately after blood-shed and adultery, before believing of the remission of these particular sins be,1 in the Lords order, renewed, is security, and not Godly peace. Psal. 32.3. While I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my roaring all the day. 5. I acknowledged — and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Psal. 51.1, 2, 3, &c. prove this. But it may be said, doth not this holy feeling of, and trouble for ⟨p. 220⟩the particular heinous guiltiness, brangle the fixed peace and the persons faith and confidence that he is in a state of justification? Ans. Not at all:2