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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.
3. There is a Philosophic mortification to the creatures which are seen by the light of nature to be very nothing and most unsatisfactory to the natural man:1 but there is no supernatural deadness in the heart wrought by the death of Christ. Archimedes, and other great spirits, sick of love to know the nature, motion, and influence of the stars, and pained with a speculative disease of books, and to know much, do contemn and despise honour, gain, pleasure, the three idols, of ambitious, of covetous and voluptuous men; but there is no deadness, no blunting of the operations of the soul toward the idol world, flowing from the believed in crucified Lord of Glory, except you say that Plato, and Aristotle, and such, were crucified with Christ: Learning works not mortification.
3. There is a Philosophick mortification to the creatures which are seen by the light of nature to be very nothing and most unsatisfactory to the naturall man:1 but there is no supernaturall deadness in the heart wrought by the death of Christ. Archimedis, and other great spirits, sick of love to know the nature, motion, and influence of the starres, and pained with a speculative disease of books, and to know much, do contemn and despise honour, gain, pleasure, the three idols, of ambitious, of covetous and voluptuous men; but there is no deadnesse, no bluntning of the operations of the soul toward the idol world, flowing from the beleeved in crucified Lord of Glory, except you say that Plato, and Aristotle, and such, were crucified with Christ: Learning works not mortification.
- 13. Philosophic and bookish mortification not from Chrst crucified.3. Philosophick and bookish mortification not from Chrst crucified.
4. There is a religious or a madly superstitious mortification. The Monks (saith Luther) dreamed that the world was crucified unto them,