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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.
A. 1. Its hard to give the division of them logically: There is 1. a natural mortification, there is no fire in the affections of sucking infants to Crowns, Kingdoms, to treasures of Gold and Silver, ⟨p. 266⟩that is not mortification,1 but virtually there is as much fire in a flint stone, though formally it be cold, as may burn twenty Cities. Concupiscence driven away from the aged, Eccles. 12. the hearth-stone is cold, and there is in it such a deadness to lusts, not because of deadness of sin Original, it lives, as the souls of the old men live, but because the tools are broken, the animal and vital spirits are weakened, the man loves the journey, but the horse is crooked and laid by: there is nothing of Christs death here.
A. 1. Its hard to give the division of them logically: There is 1. a naturall mortification, there is no fire in the affections of sucking infants to Crowns, Kingdomes, to treasures of Gold and Silver, ⟨p. 266⟩that is not mortification,1 but virtually there is as much fire in a flint stone, though formally it be cold, as may burn twenty Cities. Concupiscence driven away from the aged, Eccles. 12. the hearth-stone is cold, and there is in it such a deadnesse to lusts, not because of deadnesse of sin Originall, it lives, as the souls of the old men live, but because the tools are broken, the animal and vitall spirits are weakened, the man loves the journey, but the horse is crooked and laid by: there is nothing of Christs death here.
- 1Mortification or deadness merely natural, only because the Tools are broken & the horse wearied, hath nothing to do with the death of CHRISTMortification or deadnesse meerly naturall, only because the Tools are broken & the horse wearied, hath nothing to do with the death of CHRIST