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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.
CHAP. III. How Christ suffered for us in our room and place. 2. He died not for all and every one. 3. How many ways Christ is said to die in our stead. 4. The Lords so dying for all makes not all saveable, nor the Gospel Preachable to all Nations. 5. Christ died in the stead of the Elect.
CHAP. III. How Christ suffered for us in our roome and place. 2. He died not for all and every one. 3. How many wayes Christ is said to die in our stead. 4. The Lords so dying for all makes not all saveable, nor the Gospel Preachable to all Nations. 5. Christ died in the stead of the Elect.
The Lord Jesus hath a room in each Covenant, of Works, and of Grace:1 In the Covenant of Works as a sufferer for the breach of it. Its said by Learned Davenantius, one is said truly and properly to die for another, who dies to procure his good▪ though the other by his own fault, get no good of his dying for him. But there is not such a Question as this, whether one may truly and properly die for another, but whether Christ in the sense of the Holy Ghost died verè & propriè, truly and properly, the just for the unjust, to procure good to the unjust, and yet these unjust may eternally perish and reap no good by Christs dying, through their unbelief? 2. Will it not follow that Christ 1. died truly ⟨p. 237⟩and properly for all, and yet, non obstante morte Christi, notwithstanding of the Lords dying, all the world may eternally perish, as say Arminians and Socinians. 3. It shall follow that the immediate, yet the complete effect of Christs death is not actual, but possible saving of all. And Christ hath verè & propriè, truly and properly died for them. Nor 4. is it enough to say that Christ had a special intention in dying for the Elect to give them faith, but he had no such intention in dying for the Reprobate. But hence it follows that Christ as properly and truly died for the Reprobate as for the Elect, as touching the nature and intention of his dying; and that he offered as sufficient a ransom for the one as for the other, and that is a mere possible ransom, but as concerning the intention to apply effectually, or no effectual intention to apply the death, there's the difference. But 1. we ask for Scripture, where it is said CHRIST dying as dying for the world,