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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.
Q. Hence, 1. case: May not the conscience be quiet by the way of Socinus ▪ 1which lays aside a ransom given to Justice?
Q. Hence, 1. case: May not the conscience be quiet by the way of Socinus ▪ 1which lays aside a ransome given to Justice?
- 1The Socinian way quiets not the wakened conscience by man • works, but by the blood of Christ apprehended by faith, this is done▪The Socinian way quiets not the wa•ened conscience by mā • works, but by the blood of Christ apprehended by faith, this is done▪
Ans. The experience of the Godly man wakened in conscience saith to this, when he is chastened with pain in his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain, and the mans soul draws •ear to the g•ave, and his life unto the destroyers, and the man stands on need of an Interpreter, one among a thousand to show unto man his righteousness, Job 33.19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Then God is gracious to him, and saith, deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found him a ransom: He is not quiet while God say, my Prophet, deliver him from hell and the pit, which he so much fears, for my offended Justice hath found a ransom in Christ, and I am […] with him. Yea, and the conscience must be purged from […] works, by his blood who offered himself without spot to God through the eternal Spirit,