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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.
But ⟨p. 306⟩not because they are in Christ by faith and actually are foreseen believers,1 for that is all one. We were in Christ as the tree is in the seed, as all the Rose trees and the Vine trees are in the first Rose tree and the first Vine tree, created of God, virtually. For because God chose us, therefore shall we be in Christ by faith: yea and he chose us and ordained us to be in Christ by faith, when He gave us to the Son to be kept by him.
But ⟨p. 306⟩not because they are in Christ by faith and actually are foreseen believers,1 for that is all one. We were in Christ as the tree is in the seed, as all the Rose trees and the Vine trees are in the first Rose tree and the first Vine tree, created of God, virtually. For because God choosed us, therefore shall we be in Christ by faith: yea and he choosed us and ordained us to be in Christ by faith, when He gave us to the Son to be keeped by him.
- 1The Lord chose us not in Christ, because he saw us in him by faith.The Lord choosed us not in Christ, because he saw us in him by faith.
The third considerable act here, is an act of delectation, and the place is observable, Prov. 8.22. The Lord, Chanani, possessed me: Its not Bara, created me: Its not [Greek or Hebrew], as the LXX. have it, but as Aquila, [Greek or Hebrew], in the beginning of his way: as Cartwright, 1