A57966:643
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.
8. The phrase to die for another as a ransomer signifies to die in the stead and person of another. Demosthenes, orat. [Greek or Hebrew] in lieu of Ctesiphon. For Archias, for Marcellus, 1he pleads, it is in Law as if Archias, as if Marcellus, or as if the parties for which Cicero, and Demosthenes do plead, were in persons pleading themselves. Its true, Isocrates hath [Greek or Hebrew], for in bonum, for the favour and good of any: And (for) [Greek or Hebrew] notes also to do or die for the good and profit of others, Col. 1.24. I rejoice in my sufferings for you, that I may fill up the remnant of the sufferings of Christ for his body. But if it cannot be denied, but for Christ to die for his body is somewhat more then for Paul or any Martyr to die for the body, then sure Christs dying for his Church (as the more doth include the less) notes Christs dying for the good of his Church, and somewhat more then for the Churches profit: any may see Stephanus his Thesaurus.
8. The phrase to die for another as a ransoner signifies to die in the stead and person of another. Demosthenes, orat. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in liew of Ktesiphon. For Archias, for Marcellus, 1he pleads, it is in Law as if Archias, as if Marcellus, or as if the parties for which Cicero, and Demostenes do plead, were in persons pleading themselves. Its true, Isocrates hath 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for in bonum, for the favour and good of any: And (for) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 notes also to do or die for the good and profit of others, Col. 1.24. I rejoice in my sufferings for you, that I may fill up the remnant of the sufferings of Christ for his body. But if it cannot be denied, but for Christ to die for his body is somewhat more then for Paul or any Martyr to die for the body, then sure Christs dying for his Church (as the more doth include the lesse) notes Christs dying for the good of his Church, and somewhat more then for the Churches profit: any may see Stephanus his Thesaurus.