A57966:71
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.
Obj. Adam was to believe no such exception. Answ. True. Because it was not revealed, nor was he to believe the contrary that he should irrecoverably and eternally perish, because that ⟨p. 6⟩was not revealed: But the threatening of the Law doth not deny the Evangelic remedy, as it neither doth affirm it.
Obj. Adam was to beleeve no such exception. Answ. True. Because it was not revealed, nor was he to beleeve the contrary that he should irrecoverably and eternally perish, because that ⟨p. 6⟩was not revealed: But the threatning of the Law doth not deny the Evangelick remedy, as it neither doth affirme it.
1Obj. Then was Adam to believe, it was true which the Serpent said, ye shall not surely die, & quoad eventum, but ye shall be as Gods living and knowing good and evil.
1Obj. Then was Adam to believe, it was true which the Serpent said, ye shall not surely die, & quoad eventum, but ye shall be as Gods living and knowing good and evill.
- 1What Adam was to believe in the threatening, what the lying Serpent would have him to believe.What Adam was to beleeve in the threatning, what the lying Serpent would have him to beleeve.
Ans. Neither doth that follow, for in the meaning of the liar, it was not true, that they should not die, either by deserving (for Satan brangles the equity and righteousness of the Law and threatening) or actually and in the event, for both were false and neither revealed, and faith is not to go beyond what is revealed of God. And Satan disputed against both the equity of the threatening, as if it had been unjust, in Law, and against the event, as a fiction and a thing that should not come to pass in the event, which indeed did not come to pass: but not according to the Serpents lying and false principles.