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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.
5. We are not dead to Mammon: O who is like Christ and refuses to be a rich King,1 Joh. 6? Paul, 2 Cor. 8, 9. For ye kn•w the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor: He had a greater mind then that he could live to riches. Paul, Acts 20.33. saith not I have sought neither silver nor gold, as the Godly judge, Whose ox have I taken, 1 Sam. 12.3. but I have coveted no mans silver or gold, or apparel: The life of lust to riches is in the trusting in it. Job 31.24. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, thou art my confidence; Or, 25. have rejoiced because my wealth was great. Its true, a beggar and an extreme poor man that cannot have bread, is not troubled nor much tempted to seek a Kingdom and the millions and tuns of gold that many rich ones have; but yet there are speculative desires and rolling waves and floods of wishes in the heart for these: and because hunger and want of bread is his door enemy lying between him and the hope of great riches, the man is neither mortified to the love of bread nor to the millions of gold that the heart is sick after. And as there be diverse kinds and species of pests, and they are not all of one kind, yet all contrary to the blood and the heat of life: So are there sundry kinds of unmortified lusts about riches according to the sickness of the desire.
5. We are not dead to Mammon: O who is like Christ and refuses to be a rich King,1 Joh. 6? Paul, 2 Cor. 8, 9. For ye kn•w the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor: He had a greater mind then that he could live to riches. Paul,