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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.
Ans. Pareus with some others distinguish between the Righteousness of Christs person, which contains his essential Righteousness,1 as God, the habitual and actual conformity of the Man Christ, and the perfect holiness of the Man Christ. Such a High Priest became us, as is holy, harmless, &c. Heb. 7.26. And, The righteousness of his merit, in the satisfaction of his suffering, the satisfaction is the formal cause of our Justification which is counted ours: this latter righteousness is acquired, the former is essential.
Ans. Pareus with some others distinguish between the Righteousnesse of Christs person, which contains his essentiall Righteousnesse,1 as God, the habituall and actuall conformity of the Man Christ, and the perfect holinesse of the Man Christ. Such a High Priest became us, as is holy, harmlesse, &c. Heb. 7.26. And, The righteousnesse of his merit, in the satisfaction of his suffering, the satisfaction is the formall cause of our Justification which is counted ours: this latter righteousnesse is acquired, the former is essentiall.
- 1The righteousness of Christs person and of his merit.The righteousnesse of Christs person and of his merit.
Now the active obedience of Christ falls under a twofold consideration. 1. As the Man Christs perfect conformity to the Law of God, so as man he was obliged to do and suffer all that he did and suffered,1 even to lay down his life for man. But had he been only man his righteousness had neither been by condignity meritorious, no yet satisfactory for us. But 2. The whole course of Christs obedience from his birth to the grave, by doing and suffering, is to be considered as the doing and suffering of so excellent a person, his being born, his praying, preaching, dying, coming from a Person God-Man. Now the Law required not praying, preaching of