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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.
2. There were promises of an higher nature made to Christ in his Covenant, then are made to us in our Covenant of reconciliation, to wit, dominion from sea to sea: A Throne at the right hand of God is not made to Angels, Heb. 1.8, 13. nor to us; nor is there remission and pardon promised to him, as to us, of this hereafter.
3. The condition of justifying faith, laying hold on him who justifies the ungodly, is required of us in our Covenant: There is no such condition required of Christ in his Covenant of suretyship. The faith of Christ is the faith of dependency, but not as a condition of the Covenant of suretyship, but in another account.
Q. But is it not hard, that Christ is in one Covenant, and believers in another? Its not hard, when the Lord Christs Covenant ⟨p. 312⟩and our Covenant cannot be separated,1 and when Christs room in the Covenant of Redemption is to be the designed person Covenanting, who undertakes for us, as the surety, witness, and Angel or Messenger of the New Covenant, who makes sure our Writs, makes valid and strong our Charters, Rights, and Evidences of our Inheritance.
Q. But is it not hard, that Christ is in one Covenant, and beleevers in another? Its not hard, when the Lord Christs Covenant ⟨p. 312⟩and our Covenant cannot be separated,