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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.
The Covenant of Redemption is two ways considered. 1. As transacted in time between Jehovah and Christ, in his actual discharge of his office of King, Priest and Prophet. 2. As it is an eternal transaction and compact between Jehovah and the second Person the Son of God, who gave personal consent that he should be the Undertaker, and no other. And these three acts are considerable in the Persons in this latter consideration: 1. Designation of one. 2. Decree and destination. 3. Delectation in the work.
THe Covenant of Redemption is two wayes considered. 1. As transacted in time between Jehovah and Christ, in his actuall discharge of his office of King, Priest and Prophet. 2. As it is an eternall transaction and compact between Jehovah and the second Person the Son of God, who gave personall consent that he should be the Undertaker, and no other. And these three acts are considerable in the Persons in this latter consideration: 1. Designation of one. 2. Decree and destination. 3. Delectation in the work.
As to the first: There must have been a Person, either the Father, ⟨p. 303⟩or the Son, or the Spirit. 1. By God, from eternity set apart, separated, and designed: And 2. This person must have given an actual consent from eternity to the designation: Now the person designed was the Son only, this lot eternally (to speak so) fell upon only him who was, [Greek or Hebrew], the Lamb fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, 1 Pet. 1.20. And because Christ-God equal with the Father, does not begin to consent and agree to the designation in time, nor can Christ-God will any thing in time, which he did not will, and consent unto, from eternity; therefore he was present with the Father, and consented unto the designation, and closed the bargain from eternity: upon which account, Christ had the glory of a designed Saviour with the Father, before the world was, and prays that he may, God-Man, be glorified, as touching the manifestation of that glory to Angels and men, with the glory that he had with the Father before the world was,