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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.
It is not good to provoke, irritate, and waken a sleeping dog. There is quietness and peace of believing what Christ hath done as well done, and comfortably to rest on his deed by faith. Hence a case ⟨p. 260⟩of some, who, because they are under deadness and security, desire a wakening of conscience,1 and Satan hath taught some to commit some heinous guiltiness, that they may fall in the hand of justice, and so be wakened, and Satan gives them their fill of it. Hence, we had rather take a Law-way which is not Gods way, as lie under deadness; there may be a legal looking upon deadness, whereas it is a Gospel-sin that we should be humbled for, and in which we should not please our selves; but no man freed from the Law and brought out of prison, should be willing or desirous to return to the dungeon again. We should let God guide us under a fever, and not be our own Physicians, but be quiet at Christs part, if he be pleased to cure by contraries, and to quicken me by deadening me, or to make a soul humble by smiting with a spirit of pride: its good, we are to submit.
It is not good to provoke, irritate, and waken a sleeping dogge. There is quietnesse and peace of beleeving what Christ hath done as well done, and comfortably to rest on his deed by faith. Hence a case ⟨p. 260⟩of some, who, because they are under deadnesse and security, desire a wakening of conscience,1 and Sathan hath taught some to commit some hainous guiltinesse, that they may fall in the hand of justice, and so be wakened, and Sathan gives them their fill of it. Hence, we had rather take a Law-way which is not Gods way, as ly under deadnesse; there may be a legall looking upon deadnesse, whereas it is a Gospel-sin that we should be humbled for, and in which we should not please our selves; but no man freed from the Law and brought out of prison, should be willing or desirous to return to the dungeon again. We should let God guide us under a feaver, and not be our own Physitians, but be quiet at Christs part, if he be pleased to cure by contrairs, and to quicken me by deadening me, or to make a soul humble by smiting with a spirit of pride: its good, we are to submit.