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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.
Obj. Then may also the damned in Hell, who are not loosed from their obligation to the Law of Nature, 1and the first Command, be obliged to rely on an infinite and Almighty God, for their deliverance, for they are not obliged to despair, nor is there an obligation to any sin.
- 1The damned in hell not loosed from the first Command are not obliged to despair, and yet are not to believe actual deliverance.The damned in hell not loosed from the first Command are not obliged to despair, and yet are not to believe actuall deliverance.
Ans. There is not the like reason, for though the damned be not loosed from the Law of Nature, but are to rely upon God in his whole all-sufficiency, yet with exception of his revealed Justice and Truth: Now he hes expressly revealed, that their worm never dieth, and their fire never goeth out. And to believe that, is not to despair. Obj. What are then such Heathens to believe as ⟨p. 7⟩touching that threatening, who never heard of the Gospel? 1Ans. They are under the Law of Nature, and to believe that sin deserves wrath, according to the infiniteness of the Majesty, against whom it is committed, and to obey the Law of Nature, and read the Book of the Creation carefully: But and if the news and rumour of a Saviour come to their ears, their sin cannot but be Evangelic, in not pursuing the reality and truth of such a sovereign remedy. Yet it is not to be thought, that though the Gospel be come to all Nations, Rom. 16.26. that that is to be meant. 1. Of every Generation of all Nations. Or, 2. of the individual persons, either young, or come to age, of every Nation under Heaven, experience and Scripture speaketh against both.