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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.
But we are deprived of the Image of God, and inclined to all sin, not by imputation, as the young Lion and the young Serpent have not the bloody and the stinging nature of the old Lion and the old Serpent by imputation, but by natural and intrinsical inherency▪ Now our holy, harmless, and undefiled High Priest hath no sin in him by inherency.
But we are deprived of the Image of God, and inclined to all sin, not by imputation, as the young Lion and the young Serpent have not the bloody and the stinging nature of the old Lion and the old Serpent by imputation, but by naturall and intrinsecall inherencie▪ Now our holie, harmlesse, and undefiled High Priest hath no sin in him by inherencie.
3. A legal satisfaction and paying of a sum, yea more then the debtor was owing,1 can never take away a morally inherent guiltiness, nor inherently justify and make innocent the sinner and make him one, who hath never borrowed the money and wasted it, or one who hath never sinned in Adam, and who hath never sinned in his own person: Yea the Law of Works standing, as it is most spiritual and holy; It is […] impossible that he who hath once broken the Law, though he be made inherently most holy, and perfectly sanctified▪ can be made righteous, which requires ⟨p. 236⟩there shall never be one the least sin committed, and what is done cannot be undone.
3. A legall satisfaction and paying of a summe, yea more then the debter was owing,1 can never take away a morally inherent guiltinesse, nor inherently justifie and make innocent the sinner and make him one, who hath never borrowed the money and wasted it, or one who hath never sinned in Adam, and who hath never sinned in his own person: Yea the Law of Works standing, as it is most spiritual and holy; It is impossible that he who hath once broken the Law, though he be made inherently most holy, and perfectly sanctified can be made righteous, which requires