A57966:775

The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Name: The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
Author: 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 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 ...

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655

[16], 368 p. · 159k words · Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Part 2 › Chapter 8: The differences between the Covenant of Suretyship or Redemption made with Christ, & th…

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5. The Covenant of Redemption hath different commands, 2. Promises: 3. And conditions from the Covenant of Reconciliation. The Commands of the Covenant of Suretyship are of two sorts: 1. Some common. 2. Some proper and peculiar. The former is, that Christ fulfil all righteousness, Matth. 3.15. obey the whole Law, being made under the Law. Now the command of being under the Law, is two ways considered. 1. As laid upon the Son of God, so it is no command, but a voluntary desire: And so his consenting to take on our nature is a consenting to ⟨p. 311⟩empty himself, and to be under the Law, but no act of obedience,¹ because he was under no commanding obligation to take on him ou• nature. But 2. as it is laid upon him now God-Man, and the Word made flesh, he is under a necessity to give perfect obedience, Heb. 10.5. Therefore coming into the world: The Son being to enter into the world, and to take on our nature, speaketh to the Father, thus: Sacrifice and offerings thou desirest not, as expiations to take away sin, for they cannot expiate sin, A body thou hast framed to me, which is the only one sacrifice of the true Lamb of God which taketh away sin, Joh. 1.29. and that once for all: And there are not any sacrifices ever to come after, Heb. 9.26, 28. And perfect obedience with all the heart was tendered by Christ from a holy nature, he being full of the Holy Ghost from his Mothers womb, so as none could accuse him of sin, Heb. 4.15. Heb. 7.26. Joh. 8.46. and this obedience had influence in Christs obedience. To the 2. to wit, to that proper and peculiar command of suretyship that never man was under, but only Christ.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

Edinburgh

Printer

Andro Anderson

Bookseller

Robert Brown

Year

1655

Size

[16], 368 p.

Words

158,620

Catalogue

Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

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EEBO-TCP A57966

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902

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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

CHAP. IX. The 13. Argument, from the necessity of Gods call. 2. Of Typical sprinkling of the blood of the Covenant, and of the Testament: The place, Heb. 13.20. the blood of the everlasting Covenant opened. Of the place, Heb. 7.22. the act of suretyship, the assurance of our state.

CHAP. IX. The 13. Argument, from the necessity of Gods call. 2. Of Typicall sprinkling of the blood of the Covenant, and of the Testament: The place, Heb. 13.20. the blood of the everlasting Covenant opened. Of the place, Heb. 7.22. the act of suretyship, the assurance of our state.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. IX. The 13. Argument, from the necessity of Gods call. 2. Of Typical sprinkling of the blood of the Covenant, and of the Testament: The place, Heb. 13.20. the blood of the everlasting Covenant opened. Of the place, Heb. 7.22. the act of suretyship, the assurance of our state.

CHAP. IX. The 13. Argument, from the necessity of Gods call. 2. Of Typicall sprinkling of the blood of the Covenant, and of the Testament: The place, Heb. 13.20. the blood of the everlasting Covenant opened. Of the place, Heb. 7.22. the act of suretyship, the assurance of our state.

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