A57966:69
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.
But there are other threatenings which are both threatenings, and also Prophesies, and these reveal both the Law and the fact, and what the Law-giver may, jure, and, in Law, inflict, and what shall actually come to pass upon the transgressors, if they continue in impenitency, Rom. 2.1.2, 3, Rom. 1.18. 1 Cor. 6.9, 10.
But there are other threatnings which are both threatnings, and also Prophesies, and these reveal both the Law and the fact, and what the Law-giver may, jure, and, in Law, inflict, and what shall actually come to passe upon the transgressours, if they continue in impenitency, Rom. 2.1.2, 3, Rom. 1.18. 1 Cor. 6.9, 10.
Obj. Then in all threatenings and promises we are not to believe, that though we sin, we shall actually & quoad eventum die, and though we obey and believe, we are not to believe that GOD shall fulfil his promise, and that our salvation shall come to pass, only we are to believe jure, that we deserve to die, and that we shall have eternal life, jure promissionis, but not actually and according to the event. Answ. Something is to be said of the threatenings, then of the promises: As▪ touching the sense, we are to believe. In the threatenings conditional as (yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed) and (in that day thou eats thou shalt surely die, in thy person and all thine the first and second death) we are not to believe the event, nor is it carnal security, not to believe such an event,1