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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.
AN Argument 13. is taken from the necessity of this Covenant of Redemption. 1. From the call of God: Christ took not on him to be a Priest, nor did he glorify himself to be made an High Priest, but that he said unto him, Heb. 5. Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee: That is, I have ordained thee to have the honourable calling of the High Priest. The Apostle also, Heb. 1. applieth this in part to the eternal generation of the Son: And Act. 13.33. the Apostle applies this to Christs rising from the dead, because in these two latter, manifestly appears the God Head of the Son, in that he is true High Priest, who, by offering himself hath taken away our sins,1 which only God can do. In the other, Rom. 1.4. He is declared to be the Son of God with power, — by the resurrection from the dead. He who took not upon him to be High Priest while God called him, and neither took upon him to be King, while God called him, and said, Psal. 2.6. I have Anointed him my King, upon my holy Hill of Zion, and willingly consented to the call of God, to be King and Priest. He must be made Priest and King by Covenant between him and God: for Priests and Kings were called by Covenant, Mal. 2. v. 5. 2 King. 11.17. 2 Sam. 5.3.
AN Argument 13. is taken from the necessity of this Covenant of Redemption. 1. From the call of God: Christ took not on him to be a Priest, nor did he glorify himself to be made an High Priest, but that he said unto him, Heb. 5. Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee: That is, I have ordained thee to have the honourable calling of the High Priest. The Apostle also,